This week, we learned a bit about ethical theory and discussed how animals are treated in different scenarios. Students can find my notes on ethical theory on the Scholar page. There are a couple options for you to blog on this week: First, you could answer the question prompt we didn’t get to in class: […]

From our student Amanda Hazy – a blog post for the class. In late September, NIH declared a funding moratorium on research working toward creation of human-animal chimeras. Recent research in this field has attempted to use animals to generate human organs for transplantation by injecting early animal embryos with human stem cells to direct […]

Today, we talked about informed consent, bodies as property, and education in the context of media and medical decision making, springboarding from our reading of the book _The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks_ by Rebecca Skloot. I heard the word “rational” decision making being thrown around a lot. What constitutes a rational decision? Can decisions be […]

We were lucky enough to host Dr. Lynne Boxer, Veterinary Medical Officer with the FDA, in our class this week, and we heard from Dr. MA McCrackin last week. We also got to have a bit of reflection on Tuesday. Class participants can choose one of the prompts to follow this week (or you can […]

So glad that Dr. Jia He and Dr. MA McCrackin could present to our group this week. Dr. He tried to convince us that the cardiac system was the most important system and explained the RM approaches to repair and recovery in heart tissues. Were there any issues or approaches that surprised you from his […]

We heard great presentations this week from Dr. Moore, who works with the Institutional Review Board at Virginia Tech, and from Dr. Van Dyke, who works between science and entrepreneurship. They both talked about different legs of moving your research from “bench to bedside” or from the lab into animal and human subjects and to market. Was […]

Sorry for the delay in posting this — This past Thursday, we had a festive social event for all the faculty and students engaged with Regenerative Medicine at Bull & Bones. Thank you to Dr. Michelle Theus and Megan Quesenberry for arranging the party and pumpkin carving! For our class this week, Dr. Anju Seth […]

We witnessed a terrific set of case studies about medical tourism for different procedures this week. Among the topics, we heard student presentations about BIID amputations, Swiss rejuvenation clinics, ips cells for macular regeneration in Japan, stem cell therapies in Russia, three-parent IVF with mt-DNA in the UK, gene therapies in China, kidney transplant in […]

With guest lectures from Dr. Will Eyestone and Dr. Michelle Theus this week, we moved deeper into content about potential applications of regenerative medicine. You had such good responses last week, so let’s keep in the same sweet spot for questions for students. Were you surprised by anything you found out about this week? Any fun […]

So lucky to get such great lectures on foundational topics in regenerative medicine in class this week! Part of the tour of foundational topics – with Dr. Aaron Goldstein on TE last week, Thomas Brickler and Ann Nichols on Basic Bio, and Dr. Karen DePauw on Interdisciplinarity the week before that -, this week took […]