2015 - Page 29 of 29

Thumbs Up For Post-Pub Review in Poll; Dissenters Fault “Gotcha” Mentality

January 7, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

I recently started a poll on this blog asking for people’s views of post-publication (post-pub) review. Post-pub review includes a wide range of formats of reviews of scientific publications that occurs, as the name suggests, happens after the paper in question is published. In contrast, of course, peer review of papers happens before publication. Post-pub review …

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Can hearts fix themselves via stem cells?

January 6, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

Can hearts repair themselves via stem cell mechanisms including possibly their own stem cells? It’s a hot topic question at the center of a big debate in the stem cell field. My inclination at present is that the answer is most likely “no” at this point, but that could change and it’s important to keep …

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FDA to Put Mushrooming Fat Stem Cell Clinics on Crash Diet?

January 5, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 28 Comments

Is it the beginning of the end for dubious American clinics that sell transplants of unproven and non-FDA approved fat stem cell injections? As the year of 2014 was winding down, the FDA issued two key new draft guidances (see here and here) that could prove to be crash diets for these burgeoning fat stem cell clinics. (Update: As of …

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Ear rocks & brain sand: there are rocks in your head

January 4, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

The idiom “you’ve got rocks in your head” means that you are stupid. What if I told you that you really do have rocks in your head and so do I. In fact we all have rocks in our head. Really. You’ve probably heard of or even had kidneystones or gallstones, but rocks in our …

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How Do You View Post-Publication Peer Review? Take Our Polls

January 3, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

Post-publication (post-pub) peer review is one of the hottest topics in science today. Post-pub review means review of the scientific literature after papers come out. Post-pub review can take place on websites dedicated to it such as F1000 or PubPeer as well as on various blogs and even via comments on PubMed. In our first poll, please …

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Review of Bert Vogelstein “Bad Luck” Cancer Science pub

January 2, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 34 Comments

A new paper in Science by Bert Vogelstein suggests that a good part of cancer is attributable to bad luck. There are so many big questions about cancer. They resonate with me very strongly as a cancer researcher and a cancer survivor myself (more on my cancer story here). What really causes cancer? Why does …

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UC Davis 2nd Annual Stem Cell Ethics Symposium: Save the Date Feb. 12

January 1, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

We here at UC Davis School of Medicine are gearing up for our 2nd annual Stem Cell Ethics Symposium (see flyer). As one of the organizers, I’m really excited about our lineup of speakers including Timothy Caulfield, Leigh Turner, Alison Sorkin, Mary Ann Chirba, and Richard Garr as well as others. We will be focusing …

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Year: 2015