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What we're watching election day

Politics By Lev Facher, Nicholas Florko, Andrew Joseph and Kate Sheridan

Doctors in Congress, new e-cigarette taxes, stem cells, and abortion rights: Here’s what STAT is watching tonight

Lopez

Health By Sharon Begley

Ethics questions swirl around historic Parkinson’s experiment

Parkinson's cell transplant

Exclusive By Sharon Begley

A secret experiment revealed: In a medical first, doctors treat Parkinson’s with a novel brain cell transplant

Stem Cell_s3

First Opinion By David A. Pearce

We need better regulation of stem cell therapies, especially rogue clinics

CAR-T Therapy in France

First Opinion By David Mitchell, Saad Kenderian and S. Vincent Rajkumar

Letting academic medical centers make CAR-T drugs would save billions

Fortune telling

Don't Miss By Sharon Begley

What’s in the cards for this year’s Nobel Prizes? Scientists are placing their bets

Google on screen

First Opinion By Jeremy Snyder

Kudos to Google for banning stem cell ads. Other tech companies should follow

HIV-1

Health By Sharon Begley

In a CRISPR first, therapy intended to cure HIV patient appears safe — though ineffective

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stem cells

First Opinion By Paul Knoepfler

For now, stem cells for Covid-19 are mostly a shot in the dark

blue fibroblasts

In the Lab By Megan Molteni

In mouse experiments, scientists unlock the key to scar-free skin healing

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Chimera blastocyst

In the Lab By Usha Lee McFarling

International team creates first chimeric human-monkey embryos

mice embryos

In the Lab By Sharon Begley

In a stem cell experiment that seemingly failed, scientists see a possible way to prevent a devastating disease

California ballot measure

Politics By Usha Lee McFarling

With wildfires burning and Covid-19 spreading, can California afford stem cell research? Voters are set to decide

Human T cells showing nuclei

Business By Sharon Begley

Facing bottlenecks in manufacturing cell therapies, Boston leaders plan to build their own

Brain and placenta organoids

In the Lab By Sharon Begley

With mini-placentas and mini-brains, scientists try to unravel the roots of psychiatric disorders

F*!@ Disease

Biotech By Kate Sheridan

A mysterious startup launched with an impossibly ambitious rallying cry. Now its plans are coming into focus

Human stem cells - neural

Health By Brittany Flaherty

Canada case highlights possible long-term risks of experimental stem cell therapy

HyVee store

Health By Liz Szabo — Kaiser Health News

Employers are steering workers toward a controversial stem cell therapy

Stem cells liquid nitrogen

Politics By Eric Boodman

Stem cell clinics co-opt clinical-trials registry to market unproven therapies, critics say

Mouse pups from same-sex parents

First Opinion By I. Glenn Cohen and Alex Pearlman

Creating eggs and sperm from stem cells: the next big thing in assisted reproduction?

Homeopathic granules

First Opinion By Jeremy Snyder

GoFundMe should stop embracing and promoting unproven clinical research

polarized RPE monolayer on a biodegradable scaffold

In the Lab By Sharon Begley

Macular degeneration trial will be first human test in U.S. of Nobel-winning stem cell technique

Homeopathy vials

Health By Megan Thielking

Crowdfunding raises millions for unproven — and potentially harmful — treatments

Embryonic stem cells

First Opinion By Paul J. Hauptman

Stem cell clinics for heart failure: buyer be wary

BlueRock

Biotech By Andrew Joseph

What will FDA’s new rules mean for legitimate stem cell treatments?

Stem Cell

Politics By Usha Lee McFarling

What the FDA’s promised crackdown on stem cell clinics means — and what may come next

Elise Amendola/AP

Health By Andrew Joseph

Federal agents seize unauthorized smallpox vaccine as FDA signals broader crackdown on stem cell clinics

Mouse Chimera Brains schizophrenia

In the Lab By Sharon Begley

Mice show signs of mental disorder after brains injected with cells from schizophrenic humans

Human embryonic stem cell

In the Lab By Sharon Begley

Cancer-causing DNA is found in some stem cells being used in patients

NEJM Eye

Health By Sharon Begley

Three patients blinded by stem cell procedure, physicians say

center of a cell

Quick Take By Megan Thielking

Take a journey into the center of a cell

Mesenchymal stem cell

Health By Usha Lee McFarling

FDA weighs crackdown that could shut hundreds of stem cell clinics

Dr George Daley

Health By Melissa Bailey

Harvard Medical School appoints prominent stem cell scientist as new dean