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Blogging from the Caymans Again…

Dr. Centeno is back at the licensed Grand Cayman advanced stem cell treatment site.

This Is Your Brain on Outer Space…

What happens to the volume of gray matter and white matter in the brains of astronauts on long-term space missions,and what does it mean?

Blood Serum Exposure Alone Activates Dormant Skin Cells

A new study investigated what happens to dormant skin cells—in this case skin cells not activated by a wound—when they are simply exposed to blood serum.

Is this Fraud? Chiro Clinics and Cord “Stem Cells”

Dr. Centeno investigates the case of a local woman who claims that she was defrauded by a chiropractic clinic that injected IV cord blood into her veins to treat her health problems.

Comments Are Now Back Up and Running!

Dr. Centeno announces the new comments system for the blog.

A New Ankle Ligament Complex We Never Knew About

What we already know about the ankle ligaments is that there are many ligaments making up two known ligament complexes in the ankle. Now, a new study has discovered a third ankle ligament complex we never knew about: the lateral fibulotalocalcaneal ligament complex.

Can You Excerise Too Much or Is More Better?

The key take-away here is that exercise keeps the heart and body healthy, lessening the risk of mortality, and increasing life-span. In addition, you can't really exercise too much to enjoy those decreased mortality benefits.

The CFU Game

One of the more interesting things I’ve seen in regenerative medicine is how physicians with no direct experience in working with a research lab can often get in trouble with a little bit of knowledge. One of the areas where this happens is in quoting a simple stem cell quantification number that goes by the…read more