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Your next cool experiment requires some AAV.  Where do you start? Plasmids of course! You just need three plasmids to start making the AAVs you need for your experiment:  the packaging plasmid which contains the AAV structural and packaging genes, the adenoviral helper plasmid which contains the proteins needed for the …

© THE The Managing Global Governance (MGG) Netzwerk intensified its cooperation with the national public administration colleges in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa as well as the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) in October and November 2020. Building on the jointly developed ‘New York Action Program …

The stem cell field has puzzled on and off for years over a constellation of papers on purported stem cells including so-called VSEL and MUSE cells. Many of us haven’t been convinced that these are real stem cells. I see VSEL and MUSE fitting into a larger pattern of dubious stem …

In the Special Issue, After one decade of G20 summitry, edited by Axel Berger, Sven Grimm at the DIE and myself, I argued that the G20 had morphed from a crisis committee or steering group to being a hybrid focal point. In other words, the G20 could no longer be …

Got pointed to this today… I can’t seem to copy and paste any of the text but is for a bioinformatics position working on their COVIDTracker.  Detailed information is here.          Like this: Like Loading… Related TAGS: bioinformatics Coronavirus COVID19 genomic epidemiology SARS-CoV-2 David Coil David Coil …

We’ve finally reached the end of 2020 and that means it’s time for our annual Deck The Lab holiday decorating contest! If you’re selected as a winner, you’ll receive a winter care package from Addgene.  This year, there’s a twist. Because of COVID-19, we’re giving you the option to decorate …

Keynote by DIE director Anna Katharina Hornidge at the Green Talent award ceremony Logo: Green Talents The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has selected 25 scientists as up-and-coming “Green Talents” in an international competition for young talent. The applicants from 22 countries are now among the 280 winners …

An example of regenerative vaginal rejuvenation marketing. This medical approach, sometimes using stem cells, seems risky to me. Also, I found there is little evidence it works. When you read marketing terms like “stem cell treatment for sexual enhancement” or more specifically stem cells for “vaginal rejuvenation” what comes to …

Introduction The European Union (EU) and China signed a bilateral agreement for the reciprocal protection of Geographical Indications (GIs) against usurpation and imitation. The agreement strengths the EU-China trading relationship and reinforce the EU (Sui generis) approach on GIs in the global market.  It took around eight years of negotiations, …

Even in COVID times the FDA continues its stepped-up efforts against stem cell clinics and patients are suing clinics more too, which I cover in today’s post along with recommended stem cell research pubs. One of the papers at the top of my to-read list is on 3D chromatin in …