Weekly reads: FDA reversal on Huntington’s, Marjorie Taylor Greene gets stem cells, NIH grant cap, eye evolution

by rss feed | Jun 21, 2026 | News Feeds, Uniqure, weekly reads

I’ve been following the Huntington’s disease space carefully for about 15 years. I always hoped that some kind of promising gene therapy might emerge. Stem cell therapies or combination cell-gene therapies could have promise for Huntington’s too....

Weekly reads: macrophage therapy, Putin longevity push, human embryo base editing

by rss feed | Jun 14, 2026 | macrophage therapy, News Feeds, Putin longevity, weekly reads

I’ve often wondered why there hasn’t been more research on macrophage therapy. Macrophages are some of the coolest cells in the body. They are capable of not just eating other cells (hence their name), but also numerous other functions. Before we dive into...

Weekly reads: odd FDA PRP warning, H3.3 & CTCF, Iowa AG gets $2.5M on stem cell clinic, Colossal Biosciences

by rss feed | May 24, 2026 | News Feeds, PRP kit, States, weekly reads

Platelet-rich plasma or PRP is a regenerative product that has grown in popularity. The literature on clinical applications of PRP is all over the place. Whether it works or not for any particular application is unclear to me. Many orthopedists seem enthused about it....

Weekly reads: FDA leadership purge goes beyond Marty Makary, rare gene therapy tumor, vaccines & dementia

by rss feed | May 17, 2026 | FDA purge, News Feeds, weekly reads

Marty Makary is officially out at the FDA. From STAT: Makary departs FDA amid turmoil as Diamantas, agency’s top food official, steps in. But there’s more going on here in what looks like an agency leadership purge. This is so crazy that it’s hard to...

Weekly reads: lab-grown sperm, stem cell pills, intranasal EVs, EMF Cell paper doubts, Makary toast?

by rss feed | May 10, 2026 | FDA, IVG, News Feeds, stem cell IVF, weekly reads

Have we reached the reproductive frontier of lab-grown sperm? Producing oocytes in the lab has always been thought to be the initial focus in this arena. It was thought that figuring out the way to maked lab-grown sperm would take longer. Now a new report suggests...

Weekly reads: Gene therapy for rare form of deafness free from Regeneron, OSK in the heart, real-time clinical trials

by rss feed | May 3, 2026 | deafness gene therapy, News Feeds, weekly reads

I’ve been trying to dig out from all the stuff that piled up while I was working toward a big grant deadline last week, catch up on recent news and papers, and during this time I was excited to see the news about an approved gene therapy for a rare form of...