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Short-term safety of lab-grown stem cells for arthritis: encouraging, but key caveats

July 25, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

A new paper suggests a hopeful short-term safety profile of laboratory-grown stem cells for treatment of arthritis, but there are some important limitations to the study too. A debate continues to bubble over whether to classify laboratory-propagated stem cells as biological drugs. A persistent issue has been whether the growth of stem cells in culture […]

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Commenter Claims XCell-Center Stem Cell Clinic Got a Bad Rap, Provides New Details

June 25, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 31 Comments

What really happened at XCell-Center in Germany, formerly the largest stem cell clinic in Europe? A baby died after receiving treatment there. Why? Was the death in any way connected to stem cells? (update: note that since post originally went up, quite a few more patient deaths both a clinics and in clinical trials have

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Did Celltex just get an FDA warning letter?

October 1, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

Did Celltex just get an FDA warning letter? I’m not sure. We may find out tomorrow as the FDA updates their public warning letter list early in the week. What’s Celltex? Celltex is that famous stem cell company in Sugarland, Texas that gave Guv Rick Perry stem cell transplants. It was inspected by the FDA

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Stem cells for arthritis: are we there yet?

August 4, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

Knee arthritis, stem cell therapy for knees

Can stem cells treat the different forms of arthritis that plague 100s of millions of people across the globe? A couple years back I did a post in my disease focus series on the potential of stem cells to be used as treatments for osteoarthritis (OA). OA affects almost 30 million people in the U.S.

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Osteoarthritis stem cell research moving forward

September 10, 2010 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

About one in ten people around the world will develop osteoarthritis (OA) at some point in their lives. In the U.S., it is the major cause of disability. This is an extremely serious illness in terms of its impact on society. At this time there is little in the way of effective treatments for OA.

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Arthritis

Short-term safety of lab-grown stem cells for arthritis: encouraging, but key caveats

Commenter Claims XCell-Center Stem Cell Clinic Got a Bad Rap, Provides New Details

Did Celltex just get an FDA warning letter?

Stem cells for arthritis: are we there yet?

Osteoarthritis stem cell research moving forward

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