The Niche - Knoepfler lab stem cell blog

Arthritis patient with pain’s email on stem cell clinic & my answer

August 20, 2018 Paul Knoepfler 8

Stem cells for arthritis and pain are hot topics these days and I’m getting an increasing number of patients reaching out with questions and sharing their situations related to arthritis or pain (or usually both together). I asked one arthritis […]

TGIF Weekend Science Reads: stem cells, PRP, CIRM, CRISPR, & more

August 17, 2018 Paul Knoepfler 1

What do you read on the weekend? I wish for me it was at least in part some contemporary novel or science fiction, but that’s rare. More often than not it is almost all science. I do read the Sunday […]

Stem cell therapy reviews: knees, lung, autism, & Regenexx

August 15, 2018 Paul Knoepfler 8

Who decides whether a stem cell therapy is “good” or “bad”, and should that kind of a judgment be more focused on direct patient perspectives such as their stem cell therapy reviews as consumers or based on biomedical science? Both? […]

Poll on refunding CIRM on eve of informational legislative hearing

August 14, 2018 Paul Knoepfler 1

Our California stem cell agency, CIRM, started as a baby even before I came to California in 2006 to start my lab here at UC Davis School of Medicine, but now CIRM or to use its full name the California […]

The opioid crisis, pain, stem cells, & FDA

August 12, 2018 Paul Knoepfler 8

Last year I started seeing stem cells mentioned along with the opioid crisis in a particular way, but now recently I saw an entirely different pairing of stem cells with the opioid crisis. The first connection I saw was of […]

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