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

March 3, 2020 / 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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Heads up on Hui Yang, another potential aspiring CRISPR baby researcher

January 22, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Making a CRISPR baby is a controversial idea to even propose now for many reasons, yet even after He Jiankui’s train wreck some people have seemed eager to try it including apparently a scientist whose name perhaps many readers here are not so familiar with in this context: Professor Hui Yang. ‘CRISPR baby guys’ Is

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Updated FDA granted RMAT List (85)

January 10, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

Today’s post includes a list of firms/products that have self-reported that they have received FDA regenerative medicine advanced therapy designation or RMAT. Sometimes people call these “r mat” with a space. As of December 12, 2023 there are 85 RMATs in the public domain. I also include FDA data on RMAT submissions via an FDA RMAT resource

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

Heads up on Hui Yang, another potential aspiring CRISPR baby researcher

Updated FDA granted RMAT List (85)