ISCT launches new resource on unproven cell & gene therapies. My htoughts on the guide. Great stuff. ipscell.com/2024/10/isct-l… #stemcells #genetherapy

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An excellent read!

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Have they been drinking a lot of Red Bull? FDA’s CBER fires off 3 more warning letters on biologics for a total of 12 in 2024, far more than in any past year ipscell.com/2024/10/fdas-c… #stemcells Leigh Turner Hank Greely Patti Zettler

Join us in welcoming Darius Widera (Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Reading) to #FOG2025, where he’ll be presenting a talk on the regenerative potential of stem and stromal cells. Register now: hubs.la/Q02VPRl_0

DNA-testing site 23andMe fights for survival bbc.in/3C8joXx

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The $3B Human Genome Project was started under a Republican administration and later acknowledged by the Obama admin to have returned $141 to the economy for every $1 spent. Science has a higher ROI than any other category of government spending.

“We need to go back to the good old days when everyone just ate natural, unprocessed food, there were no vaccines, and everyone died at 40"

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Cannabis based medicines have been researched by Uni of Reading pharmacy and brain scientists for more than a decade 🧠 Darius Widera spoke to BBC Berkshire ahead of new BBC File On 4 report by Alastair Fee bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

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This is some of the worst science hype I've ever seen in decades. These are not dire wolves. You didn't de-extinct anything. You just want to raise $$$.

Calling out colossal baloney on supposed dire wolf de-extinction ipscell.com/2025/04/callin… #stemcells #stemcell Colossal Biosciences blew it by hyping this

The so-called "lab leak theory" is neither a scientific theory nor a conspiracy theory. It is an emotional narrative - a myth - heavily soaked with handwaving ignorance, conspiratorial ideation, magical thinking, allegations, speculations and silly ideas.

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Our review, “Effects of Electricity on the Regenerative Potential of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Their Secretomes,” is just out in Cell Reports Physical Science! cell.com/cell-reports-p…

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