Earlier this week the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins spoke with Kai Rysdoll of NPR’s Marketplace about the effects of the sequester on medical research. The NIH had $1.6 billion cut from its budget. Those funds will come from trimming a percentage off of the agency’s multi-year grants. (This story from … Continue reading NIH Budget cuts: "We are putting a generation of young scientists at serious risk”
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NIH Budget cuts: “We are putting a generation of young scientists at serious risk”
Earlier this week the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins spoke with Kai Rysdoll of NPR’s Marketplace about the effects of the sequester on medical research. The NIH had $1.6 billion cut from its budget. Those funds will come from trimming a percentage off of the agency’s multi-year grants. (This story from … Continue reading NIH Budget cuts: “We are putting a generation of young scientists at serious risk”
Stem cells being tested in heart disease: "We don’t want to give false hope to people"
Bradley Fikes has an interesting story in today's San Diego Union Tribune* about stem cell approaches for treating heart disease.But first, a complaint about the headline "Scripps Clinic Performs Stem Cell Heart Therapy." They didn't. I mean the therapy part, that is. It's not a therapy if it's not therapeutic, and in this very early … Continue reading Stem cells being tested in heart disease: "We don’t want to give false hope to people"
Stem cells being tested in heart disease: “We don’t want to give false hope to people”
Bradley Fikes has an interesting story in today's San Diego Union Tribune* about stem cell approaches for treating heart disease.But first, a complaint about the headline "Scripps Clinic Performs Stem Cell Heart Therapy." They didn't. I mean the therapy part, that is. It's not a therapy if it's not therapeutic, and in this very early … Continue reading Stem cells being tested in heart disease: “We don’t want to give false hope to people”
CIRM President Alan Trounson — April’s stem cell research highlights
Each month CIRM President Alan Trounson gives his perspective on recently published papers he thinks will be valuable in moving the field of stem cell research forward. This month’s report, along with an archive of past reports, is available on the CIRM website.My report this month starts with major advances from two teams at Harvard. … Continue reading CIRM President Alan Trounson — April’s stem cell research highlights
@ISSCR declares Marius Wernig 2013 Outstanding Young Investigator @sumedicine
Marius WernigThe International Society for Stem Cell Research has announced the next recipient of their Outstanding Young Investigator award and it shows once again that we here at CIRM have good taste. Stanford's Marius Wernig got the nod.Wernig is part of a CIRM disease team working on a therapy for a deadly childhood skin disease … Continue reading @ISSCR declares Marius Wernig 2013 Outstanding Young Investigator @sumedicine
Getting creative about funding Parkinson’s research: climbing mountains and making films
We wrote recently about a group taking research funding into their own hands, or legs in this case. A group of eight patients working with our grantee Jeanne Loring of the Scripps Research Institute are raising money to fund their own potential therapies. Their approach is unique, to say the least -- through a project … Continue reading Getting creative about funding Parkinson’s research: climbing mountains and making films
Reach Out and Touch Someone: How cells communicate with each other
Like many non-scientists I used to think that sonic hedgehog was a video game. Now I know better thanks to a fascinating study by researchers at Stanford and UC San Francisco. The researchers were trying to understand how developing cells of the embryo communicate with each other. So they put a fluorescent chemical tag onto … Continue reading Reach Out and Touch Someone: How cells communicate with each other
A stem cell-seeded windpipe for a young girl: more to come from tissue engineering
The stem cell news is a-buzz today with the story of a young girl who received a synthetic windpipe seeded with her own stem cells. She was born without a functioning windpipe and has lived her 2 1/2 years in intensive care.She's not the first to receive such a transplant, but she is the youngest … Continue reading A stem cell-seeded windpipe for a young girl: more to come from tissue engineering
“Adult scientists are just kids who never grew up"
We mentioned last week that the White House had once again hosted the finalists of a national science fair. Today Alex Howard has a piece on the O'Reilly Radar, in which he wrote:In a world where championship sports teams are idolized and superstar athletes are feted by the media, it was gratifying to see science, … Continue reading “Adult scientists are just kids who never grew up"
The Stem Cellar 