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Notes from a Gene Safari: September 2008
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Notes from a Gene Safari. Wednesday, September 10, 2008. I just finished reading Smail's On Deep History and the Brain. The first few chapters were a boring history of historians writing history. but the last few were pretty fascinating. The idea is that we're built to live in small bands on the savannas of Africa, not giant cities in all climates. Even more intriguing were the ways that he demonstrated that culture can change. I also liked how he pointed out the just so story. Posted by Matt DiLeo.
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Notes from a Gene Safari: August 2008
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Notes from a Gene Safari. Sunday, August 31, 2008. The debilitating power of want". I was hanging out with some friends this weekend when one began telling an anecdote about his travels in Central/South America where he routinely met people who, without any thread of material wealth or possession, managed to be much happier than most (US) Americans he knows. I think there may be something to this. I remember reading a study (I wish I could remember a citation! It sounds kinda funny, but it also resonates...
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Notes from a Gene Safari: August 2007
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Notes from a Gene Safari. Wednesday, August 22, 2007. My one boss is involved in this big peach breeding project that's been running for, I think, decades. He's responsible for disease screening assays on thousands of fruits from different crosses that are produced each summer. One of the universal benefits of working in an ag lab is that we get lots of leftovers every week. It was like a fruit that came with a dessert at the end! The naive idea that the world is split into dialectic opposites of black a...
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Notes from a Gene Safari: July 2007
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Notes from a Gene Safari. Tuesday, July 24, 2007. Humanized moss and cheap drugs. As there's nothing new under the sun, we're back to looking at plants for our medicines. Organisms make chemicals. It's what they do. Chemicals that would be exceedingly expensive to produce in a test tube are routinely produced in our own bodies. So what happens when a chemical in our body is found, under certain conditions, to cure? Many of the advantages of moss also exist in "true" plants, but there are additional ones.
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Notes from a Gene Safari: April 2008
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Notes from a Gene Safari. Saturday, April 26, 2008. Coal as the fuel of the future. I just saw a short piece on the news about Sasol. A South African company that's promising to produce gasoline from coal (profitably and with lower emissions). It seems that every few weeks we hear some scientist or company announce that they're about to release some revolutionary new fuel or fuel system that will solve all our oil woes. I'm pretty jaded to it at this point. Posted by Matt DiLeo. Links to this post. Here'...
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Democratizing Cell Technologies: Best Practices in MSC Culture: Tracking and Reporting Cellular Age Using Population Doubling Level (PDL) and not Passage Number
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Simple, Cost Effective hMSCs. July 7, 2014. Best Practices in MSC Culture: Tracking and Reporting Cellular Age Using Population Doubling Level (PDL) and not Passage Number. There has been much discussion in the literature and the blogosphere ( here. Nikbin shows loss of adipogenic and osteogenic differentiation of hMSCs with increasing cumulative population doublings. Le Blanc retrospectively proposes. It is the goal of this blog post to help to explain how Passage Number and PDL are related, and how var...
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Democratizing Cell Technologies: Priming of hMSCs to Improve Potency
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Simple, Cost Effective hMSCs. December 12, 2014. Priming of hMSCs to Improve Potency. By Iain Farrance, Priya Baraniak, and Jon Rowley. RoosterBio. In this blog, we will present internal data and information on priming RoosterBio’s bone marrow derived human MSCs (hMSC) with pro-inflammatory molecules and the impact of these priming protocols on hMSC immunomodulatory function and angiogenic cytokine secretion. Secretome is one of the likely Mechanisms of Actions (MOA) of hMSC therapies, there is a signifi...
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Democratizing Cell Technologies: Cryopreserved hMSCs maintain comparable in vitro functional activity compared to fresh hMSCs
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Simple, Cost Effective hMSCs. July 22, 2015. Cryopreserved hMSCs maintain comparable in vitro functional activity compared to fresh hMSCs. Human mesenchymal stem cells. HMSC) are currently in use in over 400 clinical trials. And are critical components of tomorrow’s cell-based products and devices (1, 2, 3). Secretion of biomolecules. By hMSC influences many biological processes and is thought to be central to the mechanism of action. Since widespread clinical use of hMSC. Similarly found that cryopreser...
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SynBioStandards Network : about synthetic biology
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Synthetic Biology leaflet from the BBSRC (PDF, 508 KB). Useful places to start finding out about synthetic biology. Adventures in Synthetic Biology' – cartoon by artist Chuck Wadey, published in Nature in 2005. Lsquo;Synthetic biology’ – Wikipedia entry. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology note, January 2008. Syntheticbiology.org – central meeting place for researchers. BioBricks Foundation – supports the development of standardised biological parts. What is synthetic biology? In short, callin...
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Notes from a Gene Safari: February 2008
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Notes from a Gene Safari. Thursday, February 28, 2008. CFLs on a landscape scale. At least it's a more aesthetically pleasing form of light pollution. Posted by Matt DiLeo. Links to this post. Sunday, February 10, 2008. Gene therapy for cyborgs. I wondered aloud to a friend tonight:. This conversation was started with the statement of a fellow grad student that stem cells are being proposed as a vector to introduce drugs and genes into sick patients. It's easy to see powerful near term possibilities ...
