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How to protect athletes and let them play | Written by Jan Shultis Baseball is known as “America’s Game,” but other athletic events certainly vie for top place in popular imagination of American culture, including American football, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and entertainment-based enterprises like World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). From a healthcare perspective, these pursuits have things in common – like people getting hurt, a lot, especially through concussiv

Written by Jan Shultis At Hope Biosciences, we culture every one of your stem cells by hand. This work matters to us as a strategy for sustainable customized medicine in the United States, as a biotechnology solution to health problems plaguing our communities, and on a very personal level as service to individuals who trust us with their stem cells. A glimpse into Leo's life. Personal caring is, we believe, the essence of translational medicine (“translational medicine” can

A conversation about medical usefulness, money, and health in individual families | Written by Jan Shultis Cord blood banking is the practice of preserving the blood found in a baby’s umbilical cord at birth, with the intention that the hematopoietic stem cells found in cord blood could one day be used to create stem cell treatments, should that newborn be diagnosed with a blood-based disease or condition. Umbilical cord blood stem cells have been used in treatment since the