Stay alert to the latest and greatest on stem cells. Enjoy this week’s “3 Bullet Thursday,” a weekly post that we do to update you on interesting and important events within the world of stem cells.
1. Wow, the world’s first clinical trial to treat HIV patients using umbilical cord blood transplants is set to start in Spain. Plans for the trial were announced last week at a haematology conference in Valencia by Spain’s National Organisation of Transplants (ONT).
2. Talk about a controversial topic! A new study published in Nature Biotechnology announces embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells to be “equal.” More specifically, the authors state, “We conclude that hESCs and hiPSCs are molecularly and functionally equivalent.”
3. In a July 2013 USA Today article, Rem Rieder discusses how Twitter is a news pipeline for more than 200 million active users, often ‘breaking’ news before it’s actually news. Want to know where to get your morning stem cell news? These are the top 15 accounts breaking stem cell news on Twitter.
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