by rss feed | Nov 8, 2026 | Deaths & Tributes, News Feeds
As long as I’ve been doing The Niche, I’ve been looking out for a possible truly promising new Huntington’s treatment. My focus has mainly been on the cell and gene therapy space. Now, we have groundbreaking news of FDA acceptance of a BLA for an...
by rss feed | Oct 4, 2026 | AI grants, Cathy Tie, News Feeds
It’s been a wild few weeks for AI in science with the latest revelation that a key UK funder did AI grant review. Let’s start there with our weekly discussion. I should note that 13 years ago I drew a cartoon imagining something like this with robots...
by rss feed | Apr 18, 2021 | celularity, Fetal tissue, News Feeds, Stem Cell News, weekly reads
It’s been a week with a wide variety of regenerative medicine papers and stem cell news. Here’s my earlier take from a few days ago on the Belmonte-led human-monkey chimeric embryo paper in Cell that broke this week. A few days ago I also put up a new...
by rss feed | Mar 9, 2021 | alternative medicine, Blog, COVID-19, Joseph Mercola, News Feeds
Those of you following the arena of unproven stem cells might recognize the name Dr. Joseph Mercola. He’s a promoter of alternative medicine. Over the years his name has also popped related to the marketing of unproven stem cell offerings in various ways. Now...
by rss feed | Jan 25, 2021 | Cynata, Fate Therapeutics, induced pluripotent stem cells, IPS cells, News Feeds
Induced pluripotent stem cells or IPS cells just might be the most exciting development in the stem cell field over the last 15 years. They have unique potential for clinical impact for regenerative medicine too, both through their use to produce differentiated...
