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Ep. 87: “Cancer Stem Cell Evasion” Featuring Dr. Justin Lathia

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Welcome everyone to Episode 87 of The Stem Cell Podcast.  On this episode we speak with Dr. Justin Lathia on the topic of “Cancer Stem Cell Evasion”.

The Science Round Up

For this week’s Science Round Up, we’d like to introduce one of Connexon’s most popular newsletters, Cancer Stem Cell News. As with all of Connexon’s 20 science newsletters, Cancer Stem Cell News keeps readers current on the latest findings and technologies in their field while saving time. They let you get more research done because you spend less time digging through the literature for the good stuff! Subscribe at cancerstemcellnews.com and check out their other newsletters while you’re there.

This week, in the world-famous Science Round Up we discuss the latest science/stem cell news including:

  • Birth defects in the US on the rise from Zika.
  • New strategy for sterilizing mosquitoes.
  • New imaging technique for DNA.
  • Two types of stem cells to grow mouse embryo.
  • Stem cell science in space.
  • Stem cells in breasts may be linked to breast cancer.
  • Obesity can reprogram muscle stem cells.

The interview with Dr. Justin Lathia

The interview portion of this episode is sponsored by STEMCELL Technologies, who is offering a free sample for a NeuroCult NS-A for Brain Tumor Stem Cells.  It’s the most referenced specialized culture medium for brain tumor stem cell culture which:

  • Supports the isolation and proliferation of brain tumor stem cells from both pediatric and adult tumors, and from a variety of CNS tumor types
  • Gives you an advantage because it’s:
  • Specialized – maintain humans neural/brain tumor stem cells in long-term culture
  • Versatile – supports a variety of tumor types, using either neurosphere or monolayer culture techniques
  • Consistent – Conforms to stringent quality control standards

The Stem Cell Podcast listeners can request a free sample at www.stemcell.com/SampleNeuroCult

For this episode’s interview, we bring on Dr. Justin Lathia, Assistant Professor in the  Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Lathia’s research focus is on how stem cell programs drive tumor progression and therapeutic resistance. To achieve this goal, he has had active projects in cell adhesion mechanisms, cell-cell communication, and the interaction between tumor cells and the immune system.  Most recently Dr. Lathia’s group published a paper in Cell Stem Cell describing a novel method on how stem cells in brain tumors evade immune signals around them. After this we close the show with a signature SCP rant. [Read more…]

Ep. 83: “Big Picture Zika” Featuring Dr. Hongjun Song

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Welcome everyone to Episode 83 of The Stem Cell Podcast.  As always go to stemcellpodcast.com for all of our episodes and to sign up for the newsletter.

The Science Round Up

Last week we introduced the Connexon Newsletters as a new partner for the Science Roundup. Connexon has been publishing free, weekly newsletters that curate the latest research and news in various fields of cell biology for over 15 years. This week’s round-up is sponsored by Neural Cell News, which is sent to more than 5000 neuroscience researchers every week. Sign up at neuralcellnews.com to keep current with everything that is happening in the neural field.

We begin with the world famous Science Round Up and discuss the latest science/stem cell news including:

  • Cancer death rates fall.
  • Ebola vaccine proves successful.
  • Announcement of a new stem cell resource.
  • A new protocol for liver progenitor cells.
  • Synthetic stem cells for heart regeneration.
  • Stem cells to grow stomachs.

The interview with Dr. Hongjun Song

In this episode, we bring on Dr. Hongjun Song, Director of the Stem Cell Program at John Hopkins University. The research in the Song laboratory focuses on understanding mechanisms regulating neural stem cells and neurogenesis in the mammalian brain. Using neural stem cells as tools, the team explores molecular mechanisms underlying mental disorders with the goal of developing novel strategies for treatment of degenerative neurological disorders. He recently published a review regarding Zika virus, what’s known, how stem cells can help and we talk with him about this topic and more.  After this we close the show with a signature SCP rant.

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Ep. 74: “Diabetes Drug Discovery” Featuring Dr. Shuibing Chen

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Dr Shuibing ChenWelcome everyone to Episode 74 of The Stem Cell Podcast. As always go to stemcellpodcast.com for all of our episodes and to sign up for the newsletter.

The Science Round Up

We begin with the world famous Science Round Up, sponsored by Biotechne and discuss the latest science/stem cell news including:

  • A ban on antibacterial soap.
  • Zika virus spreading through Florida.
  • A new way to make bone from stem cells.
  • Stem cells and brain cancer.
  • Stem cells to model dementia.

The interview with Dr. Shuibing Chen

For the interview portion of the show, sponsored by STEMCELL Technologies, we bring on stem cell biologist Dr. Shuibing Chen from Weill Cornell Medical College to discuss her work on stem cells and diabetes.  After this we close the show with a rant about “The Pharma Industry.” Enjoy! [Read more…]

Ep. 73: “Bench to Big Business” Featuring Dr. Allen Eaves

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Dr Allen EavesWelcome everyone to Episode 73, where we talk some stem cell business. As always go to stemcellpodcast.com for all of our episodes and to sign up for the newsletter.

The Science Round Up

We begin with the world famous Science Round Up, sponsored by Biotechne and discuss the latest science/stem cell news. This episode’s topics include:

  • Non for Profit Wants Your Dog’s DNA?
  • Tired Parents Don’t Follow Guidelines.
  • Zika Virus Affects Adult Neural Progenitors.
  • Melatonin Suppresses Breast Cancer Stem Cells.
  • Modeling Dengue Virus with iPSCs.

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The 3-1-16 Science Round Up, Sponsored by Bio-techne

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We are on a short break from our audio podcast; however, we are still delivering our science round ups in written form here on our blog.

Our Science Round Up is brought to you by Bio-techne.  Bio-techne brings together the prestigious life science research brands of R&D Systems, Novus Biologicals, Tocris Bioscience, and Protein Simple to provide stem cell researchers with high quality reagents that will optimize and standardize their workflow.

This Science Round Up includes several research paper and article summaries including papers covering: the science of blowing bubbles, effective ways to quit smoking, efficacy of the female viagra, mutation of head lice, sperm made from stem cells, cancer killing stem cells derived from skin, how stem cells can help treat an aggressive form of prostate cancer, and culturing stem cells too close together may render them genomically instable.   Enjoy.

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The Science Behind Blowing Bubbles

Ahh bubbles, who doesn’t love bubbles floating through the air.  I’ve actually said that if bubbles were floating around everywhere the world would be a happier place.  But what’s the secret to blowing good bubbles?  A french group looked through centuries of data regarding blowing bubbles but could not come up with a good explanation.  So, they took it upon themselves to figure it out. And the best part is how they did it.  A team of French scientists built this machine that basically blew bubbles at different speeds through a fixed size opening.  What did they find?  That its the speed of the blowing gust of air the generates the perfect bubble, not the thickness of the soapy film.  Geez.  I think I could have told them that and spared them the time and effort.  Cool and fun nonetheless.   [Read more…]