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Mary’s Forever Labs Story

posted by: Michael Elfassy

What is the Forever Labs procedure like? Mary, a health-conscious 35-year-old nurse, recently shared her Forever Labs stem cell collection experience at Davis & Pyle Plastic Surgery, in Raleigh...

DigitalCulture.LA interview with Steven Clausnitzer and Mark Katakowski

posted by: Michael Elfassy

Brittney Gallagher interviews Steven Clausnitzer, CEO, and Mark Katakowski, President, of Forever Labs about the potentials of storing your adult stem cells.

Donating Youth to Yourself

posted by: Mark Katakowski

In my previous blog post, I discussed how repairing age-related damage that our bodies accrue can extend our healthspan, and possibly even our lifespan. In this post, I am going to discuss a spec...

Three Questions

posted by: Jessica Frisenda

As CEO of Forever Labs, I attend as many of our stem cell collections as I can and I talk with many of our clients. The majority of people that are interested in storing their young-adult stem cel...

Health Maintenance: We can do more

posted by: Mark Katakowski

The amoeba is a single-cell organism that you might recall from high school biology. Single-cell organisms reproduce asexually. That is, from time to time, if food is plentiful, an amoeba splits in...

Forever Labs physician Dr. Michael Schenden featured on WXYZ Detroit news

posted by: Michael Elfassy

Last week, Dr. Michael Schenden, our first plastic surgeon to offer the Forever Labs procedure in Michigan, was featured on the ABC Detroit affiliate WXYZ. Forever Labs co-founders Steven Clausnitz...

Stroke trial finally published

posted by: Benjamin Buller

The long awaited results of a bone marrow MSC stroke trial were published recently, and the results were quite striking (with caveats that we’ll get to). This topic is near and dear to my heart, as...

Why your own cells matter

posted by: Benjamin Buller

Many people have asked us, “Can I use my cells for a family member?” Strictly speaking, you may be able to for some conditions, some of the time. But here, I’d like to discuss why your cells matter...

Do MSCs act exclusively on the immune system in neural injury?

posted by: Benjamin Buller

An interesting study came to my attention recently. Last year, a group out of Hannover Medical School in Germany published a report entitled, “Mesenchymal stem cells do not exert direct beneficial ...

Cellular Senescence in Brief

posted by: Benjamin Buller

Forever Labs was founded on the principle that each of us has a valuable reservoir of bone marrow cells, and that as we age this reservoir is depleted, much like an extended drought that has deplet...

How young blood might help reverse aging. Yes, really

posted by: Michael Elfassy

In this TED talk, Tony Wyss-Coray studies the impact of aging on the human body and brain. In this eye-opening talk, he shares new research from his Stanford lab and other teams which shows that a...

New Studies Show How Donor Age Affects MSCs’ Disease Fighting Capabilities

posted by: Benjamin Buller

In the past, I’ve written that there is a strong suggestion that MSCs from older individuals are less likely than those from young ones to fight diseases, but that the evidence—though strong—is mai...

Bone marrow vs. adipose MSCs

posted by: Benjamin Buller

There is an ongoing debate among stem cell therapy proponents about what the best source of cells is. There are, as it happens, many from which to choose. Mesenchymal stem cells are so named, becau...

What is a stem cell anyway?

posted by: Benjamin Buller

As a biologist, and one who works with bone marrow stem cells in daily life, it’s easy to forget that to the general public, a ‘stem cell’ is not much more than an abstraction, a news-worthy meme...

What happens to your cells as they age?

posted by: Benjamin Buller

The answer is complex and imperfectly understood. In fact, we don't even know why we age. It is taken as a given that we (and every other organism) age, but the fact remains that there isn't an ade...

Aren't iPS cells the future?

posted by: Benjamin Buller

When talking to friends, colleagues, and others about Forever Labs, those among them with a certain level of knowledge in the biosciences often turn the conversation to iPS cells. Specifically, the...

What’s the deal with lifespan?

posted by: Benjamin Buller

A lot of attention has been paid recently to the life-lengthening capabilities of blood and bone marrow collected from young mice, when injected to older mice. For example, a recent study from Mari...

Welcome, friends!

posted by: Benjamin Buller

This inaugural edition of the ForeverLabs blog will attempt to help you make sense of our company, our mission, and why you should continue to check our blog from time to time.The goals of our orga...