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Just one word placentas: Can Celularity live up to hype?

February 20, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

I’ve been blogging about stem cells now for about 8 years and the recent level of hype about and fluffy media coverage of Celularity, the biotech spun out of Celgene, ranks right up here with the most extreme past cases I’ve seen. What is Celularity and who is its leadership? It’s a new biotech focused […]

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TGIF: Guns, stem cells, science weekends reads & good news

February 16, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

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I’ve got some TGIF recommend reads on stem cells, etc, but first, what a week, right? We need more action on preventing gun violence. It’s a uniquely American health crisis that doesn’t have to be. There’s no real, common sense reason that gun control can’t reduce mass killings of our kids and others like the

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