Fueling hope: stem cells in social media

JM Robillard, E Cabral, C Hennessey, BK Kwon… - Stem Cell Reviews and …, 2015 - Springer
… on stem cell issues has also shown that stem cell research is often hyped [6, 11], and that
social media contributes to that phenomenon [35]. Hyped representations of stem cell research …

Synthetic hype: a skeptical view of the promise of synthetic biology

J Kahn - Val. UL Rev., 2010 - HeinOnline
… These new stem cells were called induced pluripotent stem cells ("iPSCs").Independent
of the fact that no new widely applicable stem cell therapies had yet been developed, …

The promissory pasts of blood stem cells

N Brown, A Kraft, P Martin - BioSocieties, 2006 - cambridge.org
stem cells as a source of tissue-engineered regenerative medicines. It is these changing
expectations of blood’s precursor stem cells … Importantly for this article, hype can also be seen to …

Stem cell-based therapies for cancer treatment: separating hope from hype

DW Stuckey, K Shah - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2014 - nature.com
Stem cell-based therapies are emerging as a promising strategy to tackle cancer. Multiple
stem cell types … This perspective considers the current status of stem cell-based treatments for …

Hype, Hope, and Reality: Telomere Length, Telomerase, and Aging

HR Warner, RJ Hodes - Generations: Journal of the American Society on …, 2000 - JSTOR
… exist among normal non-germ-line, or somatic, cells, including lymphocytes during
development and clonal response to antigens and stem cells, which are rare undifferentiated cells

From bedside to bench? Communities of promise, translational research and the making of blood stem cells

P Martin, N Brown, A Kraft - Science as Culture, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
… One central geography in the worlds of stem cellstem cell innovation historically and
socially in the communities of expertise, research and therapy related to a particular stem cell, the …

[PDF][PDF] Stem cells: hype and hope

C Svendsen - Drug Discovery Today, 2002 - ualberta.ca
stem (ES) cell derived from the inner mass of the developing blastula, and the second is the
adult stem cell … Several possible clinical applications for these cells are also highlighted in …

Mesenchymal Stem Cell–Derived Exosomes in Various Chronic Liver Diseases: Hype or Hope?

L Zhu, Q Wang, M Guo, H Fang, T Li, Y Zhu… - Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
… long been associated with stem cell therapy. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), a type of cell
with great differentiation potential, have become the preferred source for stem cell therapy. …

l-glutamine, crizanlizumab, voxelotor, and cell-based therapy for adult sickle cell disease: Hype or hope?

JN Leibovitch, AV Tambe, E Cimpeanu, M Poplawska… - Blood Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
… The only curative approach to SCD is allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (allo-HSCT).
Allo-HSCT has been used in SCD patients for more than 30 years. Despite this, the …

The hope and the hype of organoid research

M Huch, JA Knoblich, MP Lutolf… - …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
… ) cell culture methods, which allow embryonic stem cells (ESCs), induced pluripotent stem
cells (iPSCs) or tissue-resident stem/progenitor cells to … Stem cells can now be used to grow …