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Weekly reads: hit pause on human life, CIRM pause, 23andMe data, blast from the past

October 13, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 20 Comments

Remember cryonics, the idea that you could hit pause on human life? This relies on the super-cold power of liquid nitrogen or some other ultra-freezing method. Apparently cryonics is still a thing and there are people with even just their heads frozen. A new story claims a different way to hit the pause button on […]

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Weekly reads: Google, CIRM, young Swedish bone marrow

November 12, 2023 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 13 Comments

For me, this was another week of heavy grant writing but also taking on Google again. How? Over how badly its search engine often performs on stem cell queries. I have a new piece at MedPage Today. It’s focused on the problem of Google Search promoting unproven stem cell clinic websites. Google still prefers stem

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Altos Labs: mission, leadership, jobs, & CIRM

April 12, 2022 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

At the beginning of the year I wrote about a new kind of biotech called Altos Labs. It’s very different in some ways from other institutions. I find it an intriguing research entity. Where do things stand now with Altos Labs a few months later? More information, new ideas, and questions have popped up in the

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Prop 14 California: Big Expectations for CIRM 3.0

December 21, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

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Approval of Prop 14 California last month to renew CIRM was one of the biggest state election developments of 2020. Yet it didn’t get much news coverage somehow. The exception is David Jensen over at California Stem Cell Report, who has been a great source of information about the various news surrounding Prop 14 and

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Prop 14 polling on CIRM re-funding stays moderately upbeat

October 5, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

The State of California is considering re-funding its stem cell agency, CIRM, to the tune of more than $5 billion dollars, but the issue has generated surprisingly little media attention. The main coverage has been by David Jensen over at California Stem Cell Report. Prop 14 polling data non-existent in public domain To my knowledge,

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Polls: will California approve Prop 14 to fund CIRM again? Should it?

September 25, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

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Back at the beginning of the year I surveyed you readers here on The Niche about the future of CIRM and whether California voters would approve more funding for it in November. That funding effort is now on the ballot as Proposition 14. A month earlier late in 2019 in my yearly 20 predictions for

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Seth Rogen is a stem cell pitching Prop 14 for CIRM in funny new video

September 22, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

Should California’s Stem Cell Agency, more widely known as CIRM, get another round of funding from us California voters? I believe the answer is yes and I endorse Proposition 14, which would provide the funding for CIRM to translate dozens of clinical trials into some proven new stem cell-based treatments in the coming decade. However,

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Weekly reads: organoids, COVID-19, CIRM & cool new pubs

June 28, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

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Organoids are providing a novel avenue into the pathogenesis of COVID-19 and novel models for drug screening. A number of new preprints on respiratory organoids shed new light in this area. They were highlighted in a Nature newsy piece, Mini organs reveal how the coronavirus ravages the body. It’s a challenge to study COVID-19 infections because just infecting

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Please take a couple minutes now to help fund future of CIRM

April 20, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

The California Stem Cell Agency, better known by the acronym CIRM, has done a vast amount of good over the past decade and a half, and today it needs your help for the future. CIRM, which stands for the “California Institute for Regenerative Medicine”, has funded a huge array of stem cell and other research

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