On July 11, Wills Eye Institute ophthalmologist Carl Regillo delicately placed 100,000 cells beneath the retina of 52-year-old Maurie Hill’s left eye…
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post Human Embryonic Stem Cells Finally Reach Clinical Trials: Maurie’s StoryRead more
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post Y Chromosome Loss Linked to Hiked Heart Disease Risk: The Human Y Isn’t Useless After AllRead more
I’ve never been fond of the human Y chromosome. Yes, the all-important SRY gene sets the early embryo on a path towards…
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post 17 Timepoints When a Human Life Might Begin, 2022 VersionRead more
I originally published When Does a Human Life Begin? 17 Timepoints here at DNA Science in 2013. My intent was to inform…
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post Leaping Lizards Regenerate Limbs, Thanks to CRISPR and Stem CellsRead more
I’ve admired the cockroach’s ability to regrow lost legs since learning about them while working on my PhD in developmental genetics ages…
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post Gastruloids Stand In for Early Human EmbryosRead more
Remember human embryonic stem (hES) cells? We don’t hear much about them anymore. And so I was surprised to see an application…
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post Genetic Choreography of the Developing Human EmbryoRead more
Years ago, when I was teaching at a state university, I had the privilege to show real human embryos and fetuses to…
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post Leroy Stevens: Fairwell to The Unsung Hero of Stem Cell ResearchRead more
Yesterday a Google Alert popped up with a blast from my past, an obituary for Jackson Lab researcher Leroy C. Stevens. It quoted…
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post When Does a Human Life Begin? 17 TimepointsRead more
I rerun this most-read post about when human life begins every time that the discussion resurges, which is usually in the shadow…
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post 10 Reasons Why Growing A Human Brain-in-a-Dish is TerrificRead more
“My brain! It’s my second favorite organ!” cried an aghast Woody Allen as his time-traveling character in 1973’s Sleeper, Miles Monroe, was…
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post Retinal Stem Cells and Eye of NewtRead more
More than a decade before Sally Temple, PhD, and her husband Jeffrey Stern, MD, PhD, discovered stem cells in human eyes, they suspected…
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post A New Biological Aging Clock: Ribosomal DNARead more
Chronological aging is easy to track – birthdays. Biological aging can be obvious too – graying hair, sagging skin, and other inexorable…
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post Gene Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes: Preclinical PromiseRead more
Despite eclectic ways of delivering insulin to control blood glucose level in people with type 1 diabetes (T1D), no approach precisely replicates…
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