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Eyleen de Poel and Maarten Geurts studying some organoids used in the CRISPR cystic fibrosis research. Image from UMC Utrecht.

Recommended recent stem cell, cancer, & CRISPR reads

February 23, 2020 Paul Knoepfler 1

What’s on your weekend reads list including stem cell papers? In addition to hard-core research papers, I find some bigger picture publications to be helpful too. Then there are just fun items. Every so often I do a post about […]

COVID-19 stem cell trials pile up during novel coronavirus outbreak

February 19, 2020 Paul Knoepfler 5

Could stem cells help patients with the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19? It’s hard to say at this point. Is it worth doing trials during the outbreak to find out? Three new clinical studies have popped up on Clinicaltrials.gov investigating the […]

Patients stem cell Q&A#1: can clinic injections cause GVHD?

February 17, 2020 Paul Knoepfler 13

People ask me questions about stem cells all the time so I decide to do a new blog series answering your questions. Today’s post is the first in this new stem cell Q&A series. Past series have included my Elephant […]

4th Obokata retraction after Harvard investigation: STAP saga finally over?

February 13, 2020 Paul Knoepfler 0

Retraction Watch broke the news that Haruko Obokata of the STAP cell train wreck now has a 4th paper retraction. The publication related to the controversial idea that adult tissues have pluripotent potential or actual pluripotent stem cells in them […]

My review of stem cell supplements: underscienced & wildly overpriced

February 10, 2020 Paul Knoepfler 3

I thought I’d take a look again into the world of stem cell supplements since it’s been a few years. What I found wasn’t a pretty picture. (Note that “supplements” here refer to things people can ingest to somehow supposedly […]

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