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The Culprit of Aging
By Don C. Reed Dr. Helen Blau of Stanford is attempting something seemingly impossible: to treat aging as a disease; to lessen the devastation of old age; to recover strength, muscle mass, and endurance—for people already old. According to Dr. Blau, a typical person...
ANGELMAN’S DISEASE
By Don C. Reed Imagine you are an infant, and your Mom or Dad is trying to bottle-feed you. The nipple is placed between your lips — now what happens? You suck and swallow, right? But sucking (into the mouth) and swallowing (gulping it down) are two separate...
Fighting Multiple Chronic Conditions
By Don C. Reed First, a seeming digression. Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, is based on a true story. Hemingway was on a fishing trip off Cuba, when he heard about the r/l fisherman’s epic battle against a giant marlin. After he had killed...
MUOTRI’S ROBOT: The California Stem Cell Program vs. Autism
By Don C. Reed, author, “CALIFORNIA’S WAR ON CHRONIC DISEASE “Chronic diseases are defined… as conditions that last 1 year or more… they are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States… (as well as the) leading drivers of the nation’s $3.8 trillion...
STROKE: What It Is, and How California is Fighting Back
by Don C. Reed, author “CALIFORNIA’S WAR ON CHRONIC DISEASE, World Scientific Publishing, April 2023 My stroke was a subtraction, a lessening of mental and physical abilities. I heard a soft pop, experienced a slight headache, and — and this was strange — I had to...
SPINA BIFIDA PARALYSIS, AND THE CALIFORNIA STEM CELL PROGRAM
By Don C. Reed December 20, 2023 UPDATE : The study is reopening January 15th to treat an additional 28 patients to determine how well the therapy works (a phase 2 trial). Original article: People ask: what has the California stem cell program done with the money...
To Paul Berg: in Memory
by Don C. Reed An old poem, partly remembered: “A tree is fallen, there is a gap against the sky.” Stanford’s great champion Paul Berg has died. Others are better equipped to understand and share his scientific contribution, how his Nobel Prize-winning work with...
KEVIN MCCORMACK: the Voice of CIRM
In one of life’s great cruelties, Kevin McCormack was taken from us; I imagine he would not like it, if we kicked up too much of a fuss. He might not wish to hear, I suppose, about tears shed on his behalf, He might prefer we lift a glass, remembering him with a...
ON HERSCHEL WALKER: A Patient Advocate’s Perspective
By Don C. Reed Should Herschel Walker, a vocal enemy of science, become Georgia’s next United States Senator? As a patient advocate for several decades, I hope not. It is not a question of Walker’s politics, to which he is entitled; but the man does not appear to know...
Don Reed's NEW BOOK - "Science, Politics, Stem Cells and Genes: California's War on Chronic Disease"
California’s War on Chronic Disease
By Don C. Reed, World Scientific Publishing, April 2023