The Niche - Knoepfler lab stem cell blog

Ou dragon book gets a flaming thumbs up in Nature review

August 25, 2019 Paul Knoepfler 0

When you write a book like our new dragon book, as the first reviews of it start coming in you just never know what they’ll be like. When the person or outlet doing the review has a huge audience, the […]

Stem cell treatment cost 2019: polls & more

August 22, 2019 Paul Knoepfler 2

Stem cell treatment cost is a big issue for patients now and longer term also for the stem cell field. If proven stem cell treatments end up costing too much then all that hard work to invent and test the […]

‘Bottom of stem cell barrel’? Utah piece sparks legal threat

August 20, 2019 Paul Knoepfler 2

Up until now Utah hasn’t immediately come to mind as a hub for stem cell issues, but things are heating up there in 2019. Utah? I was going to do a blog post here on The Niche last month about […]

Patsy and King Arthur in the Monty Python-related musical Spamalot.

Celeb stem cell clinic shots series: John Cleese ‘spam’ edition

August 18, 2019 Paul Knoepfler 0

When you read “spam, spam, spam” do you think of Monty Python? I do. Some folks may immediately think of email spam. There might even be a connection between the ubiquitous email spam and the old Monty Python spam. See […]

Top 12 tomato tips for growing great ones

August 14, 2019 Paul Knoepfler 3

Looking for some tomato tips? I do sometimes escape the lab into the outside world and once out of there I can often be found in my vegetable garden looking after my tomatoes. I’ve written many times here on The […]

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