By Don C. Reed Imagine a nightmare scenario. You go to the bathroom, and you urinate — blood. First, of course, you would wrack your brain for some harmless explanation: maybe you bumped into something, injuring yourself, so your kidneys are bleeding? Professional...
By Don C. Reed Caleb Sizemore approached the speaker’s platform, to address the Board of Directors of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Two things stood out: an astonishing smile, lit by blazing blue-green eyes — and the carefulness of his...
By Don C. Reed I wish you could have been there, August 15th, 2018, at the state Capitol building, Sacramento, California. It was a Biomed Committee hearing for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), formed by the citizens’ initiative, Proposition...
By Don C. Reed Imagine a calm persuasive voice, telling you to pick up a gun, put it to your head, and squeeze the trigger—you would say no, of course– but what if that voice repeated itself, over and over, and it came from inside your mind? ...
Benefit #50 (of 71) of the California Stem Cell Program: FIGHTING PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY https://www.cirm.ca.gov/our-progress/awards/human-ipsc-modeling-and-therapeutics-degenerative-peripheral-nerve-disease Other than being spectacularly flat, my feet gave me no...
Benefit # 49 (of 71) California Stem Cell Program: On “Tuesdays with Morrie”: BATTLING ALS By Don C. Reed “Tuesdays with Morrie”, is the true story of the last days of Morrie Schwartz, and the visits of his student, author Mitch Albom. “Tuesdays” became a huge...