Month: March 2020

‘We Cannot Stick to the Rules’: claims of stem cells saving COVID-19 patients

March 3, 2020 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 13 Comments

I’ve been watching as the number of registered stem cell-related clinical trials for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) disease COVID-19 continues to spiral upward, mostly in China. During the last two weeks, I’ve been trying to carve out a bit of time to look at these actual trials in more depth, but I admittedly haven’t gotten …

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Weekly recommended science reads: stem cells, CRISPR, cancer & more

March 1, 2020 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

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There’s never enough time to get all of one’s science reading done, but we can try! It helps to have a list of “to-read” articles, whether actual research articles or media pieces. In the old days, I remember my mentors saying they literally had “piles” of journal articles on their coffee tables, bathrooms, bedrooms, etc. …