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This is not making America healthier but quite the opposite.

New article explores 4,481 YouTube videos about stem cells to map how medical knowledge is shared online, revealing a complex discourse dominated by celebrity influencers in the promotion and discussion of putative stem cell treatments. https://ow.ly/iNUG50Xv8Ay

"Neither MUSE cells or VSELs have been proven helpful or safe for any health condition." How can one prove that for something which doesn't exist? forbetterscience.com/2023/06/21/s...

ICYMI: So-called regenerative or wellness "peptides" could be the latest big scam. Their use is spreading like wildfire and it's unclear whether the current FDA will do more to lower risks here or under RFK Jr. just make it worse ipscell.com/2025/11/more...

Khloé & Kim Kardashian stem cell adventures in Mexico, getting MUSE cells raise many concerns for the field & public health ipscell.com/2025/11/khlo... #stemcells #stemcell

Born #OTD in 1878, Grace Abbott fought for immigrants, protected children from labor exploitation, and helped build the social security system. Her legacy still guides us. Today, #TheMarchContinues

ICYMI: More red flags on peptides even as softening of FDA oversight could happen soon under RFK Jr. ipscell.com/2025/11/more... BPC-157, GHK-Cu

Whoever came up with these tariffs in the first place should be fired.

Given the issues facing neuroscience around government policy and funding, the naming of an outsider to SfN’s top position caught some neuroscientists by surprise. By Natalia Mesa #neuroskyence #SfN2025 #SfN25 www.thetransmitter.org/teaching/kev...

Trump is cornered on Epstein, he knows it will pass the votes so now he can say it’s because he told them to and he wants them released as well.. after he says DOJ just can’t release it because of ongoing investigations. Or his involvement got destroyed

As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say. By @williamturton.bsky.social @chrisbing.bsky.social

A mosaic of lichen on a Sussex fencepost #lichens #lichenGBI

Weekly #stemcell & regenerative reads: thoughts on MAHA summit agenda, Ittleman on FL stem cell law, NYT on brain organoids, Dr. BS letters to the editor ipscell.com/2025/11/week... #stemcells

NEW: President Trump mentioned over 1,000 times in Epstein files, more than anyone else. (gift) www.miamiherald.com/article31290...

NEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

ICYMI: So-called regenerative or wellness "peptides" could be the latest big scam. Their use is spreading like wildfire and it's unclear whether the current FDA will do more to lower risks here or under RFK Jr. just make it worse ipscell.com/2025/11/more...

This is chilling.

One of the key additional points about this paper at the bigger picture level (ipscell.com/2025/11/week...) that I wrote about is that there is no solid scientific rationale for why an infusion of MSCs would help heart failure, yet the paper reports a supposed huge benefit.

More red flags on peptides even as softening of FDA oversight could happen soon under RFK Jr. ipscell.com/2025/11/more... #stemcells #MAHA pharmacy compounding plays a complex but interesting role here too

This is the message. 👇🏽

ICYMI: Weekly #stemcell & regenerative reads: new BMJ MSCs for heart disease pub already under major fire & some call for possible retraction, Google’s new tweaked h-index, Tidmarsh under investigation & out at FDA, alleged cord blood banking scam, more ipscell.com/2025/11/week... #stemcells

What do you consider a peptide vs. a small protein? Where's the cutoff? 40aa? 50aa? 100aa? While I haven't ever heard of a scientific cutoff regulators do have one.

ICYMI: Deja ewe or eww: expansive animal cloning raises some difficult questions ipscell.com/2025/09/deja... Viagen Colossal

The anti-aging nonsense is pretty universal

Amazing pair of phainopepla calling to each other during the sunrise

Weekly The Niche reads: new MSCs for heart disease pub already under fire, Google’s new h-index, Tidmarsh out, alleged cord blood banking scam ipscell.com/2025/11/week... #stemcells #stemcell

Kash Patel's private-jet problem is getting worse. The FBI director has taken the government jet to Nashville, his country-singer girlfriend's home city, even more than has been publicly reported. My latest newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...

I reported this to @pnas.org in 2021 and 2022. So far I don't see that anything has happened. Non-profit publishers sometimes seem just as disinterested in cleaning up past problems as for-profit publishers. YMMV. pubpeer.com/publications...

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

What will be born of the marriage of de-extinction firm Colossal and animal cloning biotech Viagen? www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/c... My new STAT News column goes over this new intersection of de-extinction and cloning #biotech firms #stemcells Where does Tom Brady's cloned pitbull fit in?

SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...

We built a targeted protein degradation–based system to mimic reproductive age-related aneuploidy in young eggs - revealing how chromosome errors associated with female infertility arise with age. 🧬✨ With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB. Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

JS: Hope and hype for stem cell interventions for autism spectrum disorder Despite considerable research, there is little evidence to support stem cell interventions as a treatment for autism spectrum disorder. Cites article by @stemcells.bsky.social #TMM2025

Why does the President have zero clue about one of the most corrupt pardons he's made so far?   Donald Trump is a crook, whether he knows it or not.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Recommended #stem cell & regenerative reads: Valentina Greco, CRISPR trials halted on safety, JAX acquisition, Prasad vs. CBER ipscell.com/2025/11/reco... #stemcells

FDA’s top drug regulator placed on leave amid investigation CDER Director George Tidmarsh is accused of seeking to use authority to inflict financial harm on former associate www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f...

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

Recommended #stemcell & regenerative reads: Valentina Greco optimistic vision for field, CRISPR trials halted on safety, JAX acquisition of NYSCF, Prasad vs. CBER veterans continues at FDA ipscell.com/2025/11/reco... #stemcells

Happy Halloween

The cover of the Korean edition of my and my daughter's How to Build a Dragon book looks cool #CRISPR #stemcells www.amazon.com/How-Build-Dr...

Stem cell therapy cost goes up & what to consider looking ahead. New polling in late 2025. ipscell.com/2025/10/stem... It seems many people are getting 10+ shots #stemcells #stemcell

Halloween costumes that really scare scientists ipscell.com/2020/10/top-... Some are pretty rough #biology #genetics #humor

Missed this: it's fine to steal from NIH & conducting research w/out keeping ANY records doesn't meet the definition of misconduct at CUNY. 18 USC 1001 was last seen hiding under a chair at Trump's inauguration.

The collateral benefits of the Covid pandemic response was a marked decrease in airborne and aerosol-transmitted infections via masking and non-pharmaceutical interventions @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Halloween costumes that really scare scientists ipscell.com/2020/10/top-... Some are pretty rough #biology #genetics #humor

Stem cell therapy cost goes up & what to consider looking ahead. New polling in late 2025. ipscell.com/2025/10/stem... It seems many people are getting 10+ shots #stemcells #stemcell

]Exclusive: US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say |Reuters] “military officials involved with Trump's expanding operations in Latin America been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements, that raises new questions” www.reuters.com/world/americ...