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Fusion versus differentiation
EDIT:His blog has apparently been hacked. Murtaugh has a nice post on the fusion versus differentiation stem cell debate.
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But you kill babies, right?
I was volunteering at a benefit banquet for a local charity, which meant that I stood there and occasionally served food to people in exchange for being able to eat and drink all I wanted. While I was...
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We have no assay for a soul.
“We have no assay for a soul.” Nicely put, but Irving Weissman’s still wrong about adult stem cells.
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A dialogue between a scientist and a catholic pro-life activist.
It’s not surprising in this melting pot of a nation, founded on religious tolerance, that people believe a variety of things. Neither is it surprising that some believers try to get other people to...
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Nature interviews Alan Trounson, the new head of California’s Institute for...
CIRM is a state-run institution with a mission to advance research in regenerative medicine, and it will be interesting to see how effective this kind of monolithic non-university institute can be in...
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What’s New in Pubmed This Week: Stem cells
I’m subscribed to some search feeds at Pubmed. Here’s what caught my eye this week in the Stem Cells feed: There were 35 new articles this week, only two of which were open access. Ledford H. Doubts...
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I’m sticky!
I was going through my logs banning spammers (using the Antileech plug-in, so let me know if you see feed weirdness) and I was pleased to find that according to cureparalysisnow.org, I’m an excellent...
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Conference notes from Genostem International Symposium on Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Genostem is a consortium of 160 European scientists from 11 EC member countries comprising 11 academic institutions and 5 private enterprises. The project, founded in 2004, is focused on developing and...
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A couple reasons why columnists should be very careful when they opine about...
Even active scientists often make mistakes when they comment on fields outside their expertise. In a recent example not involving a crackpot theory of quantum consciousness or intelligent design,...
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What’s New in Pubmed? Nothing!
There’s a long-standing problem with trying to follow the literature on MSCs. The more proper name is “multipotent stromal cells“, whereas the name many people still use is “mesenchymal stem cells”....
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The commentary on “Defining Pluripotency in Human Cells” is up at the Niche.
Featuring commentary on their previous article by Peter Andrews, Shinya Yamanaka, Paul Tesar, and William Gunn(aka yours truly). I really like Paul Tesar’s idea of a “pluripotency score”, because it’s...
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