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Recommended reads: FDA warning, COVID updates, stem cell pubs

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What’s been going on in the stem cell and regenerative medicine field over the past week and what are some worthwhile things to read? Today’s post has recommended recent reads from the scientific literature and the media. I’ve also got our weekly stem cell/regenerative medicine quiz question and the answer to last week’s. You can …

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Transformative idea for peer review: reviewing & grading the reviewers

Do you feel frustrated with the current peer review system in science? I have an idea that might help and it involves the revolutionary idea of reviewer accountability. In other words, authors and grant writers in essence review their reviewers. I’ve made this all the easier for you with templates that you can simply and …

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Dirty dozen easy steps to killing a paper during review: elephant in the lab series

Here is the second installment in my “elephant in the lab” series, which addresses controversial or even taboo topics in laboratories and the sciences. The first segment was on taboo topics in the iPS cell field. People loved the honesty of that post. Today I am talking about how sometimes scientists kill each other’s papers …

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I Still Hate Your Paper: Dr. No and the Editors that are ruining Peer Review

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A year ago I did a post on scientific peer review and the dreaded Dr. No, but have things gotten any better? No. From everyone I have talked to, the answer would seem to be quite the contrary–things continue to move in the wrong direction. If you are not a scientist, but care about stem cell …

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