by rss feed | Oct 20, 2024 | News Feeds, Seraxis, stem cell patch, Vision, weekly reads
New research on stem cell patches is exciting. However, more broadly, “stem cell patches” can mean very different things. What I’m talking about here are the types of patches that can repair holes or other problems with tissues. This is a powerful...
by rss feed | Sep 12, 2024 | Carl R. Harrell, FDA Warning Letter, News Feeds, Regenerative Processing Plant, Regner-Eyes, Vision
The FDA alerted the public about issues related to amniotic eye drops last year and now the agency just warned the manufacturer of one such product called Regener-Eyes. The manufacturer is Regenerative Processing Plant, LLC. The warning letter was addressed to its...
by rss feed | Nov 18, 2021 | Cell Surgical Network, News Feeds, US Stem Cell, Vision, vision loss
A stem cell clinic in the Cell Surgical Network chain has just been sued allegedly for causing vision loss in a patient. By my count, across the U.S. this makes at least 5 patients who have said they were either totally blinded or had some major vision loss after...
by rss feed | Sep 29, 2021 | News Feeds, stem cell clinics, Stem cell side effects, Vision, vision loss
What are the possible stem cell therapy side effects when people are considering going to an unproven clinic? This is a common question I get asked by patients who reach out. Side effects at unproven clinics Many clinics have said over the years to potential customers...
by rss feed | Sep 5, 2021 | News Feeds, Vision, vision loss
I love stem cell research but experiments that have practical possible future applications in medicine like for vision loss are especially interesting to me. On the other hand basic research on core transcription factor mechanisms like by MyoD also really grab me. We...
by rss feed | Aug 17, 2021 | brain, brain organoids, News Feeds, organoids, Vision
Sometimes a paper really catches your eye like a new Cell Stem Cell pub reporting eye-like structures grown on brain organoids. The paper is Human brain organoids assemble functionally integrated bilateral optic vesicles. Let’s take a quick look at this paper,...
