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Five simple ways to protect your stem cells to stay healthy and biologically younger

March 23, 2012 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

GO here for an even newer updated look at protecting one’s stem cells. Regenerative medicine is very exciting. But what’s even better than regenerative medicine? Preventative medicine. If one can prevent a problem from occurring in the first place, it is far better than trying to treat it after the fact. Of course in many …

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Regenerative Medicine outlook: Five simple ways to protect your stem cells and your health

August 3, 2010 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

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Regenerative medicine is very exciting. But what’s even better than regenerative medicine? Preventative medicine. If one can prevent a problem for occurring in the first place, it is far better than trying to treat it after the fact. Of course in many cases we do not know the causes of diseases so it is difficult …

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Weekly reads: elephant stem cells, RIP Connie Eaves, AI cell biology

March 17, 2024 March 16, 2024 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

Last week one of the most popular stories was about a preprint from a mammoth de-extinction research group led by George Church having made elephant stem cells. I finally got a chance to look carefully at their preprint. Elephant stem cells preprint and mammoth de-extinction The elephant stem cells preprint has solid data. It looks like …

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Can trying to cheat death paradoxically kill you sooner?

December 7, 2023 December 25, 2023 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 10 Comments

Can you paradoxically kill yourself early by trying to cheat Death? For example, die through risky anti-aging approaches? The question came to mind because such longevity efforts have become more extreme. They also get more hype in the media. I’ve been following the anti-aging space mainly because many interventions involve risky stem cell injections. Those …

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Not Old MacDonald’s Farm: is the future lab grown meat?

December 10, 2020 June 6, 2022 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Would you eat lab grown meat? Envision biting into a warm juicy burger with all the trimmings. Lab grown meat intro If you are a burger fan, your mouth may already be watering. Or maybe you prefer steak or bacon? If you are a vegetarian or animal welfare advocate, however, you might be rather disturbed …

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FTC fires off many warnings to stem cell clinics on COVID-19

September 1, 2020 June 8, 2022 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

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The FTC has sharply increased its oversight activities against stem cell and regenerative clinic firms. These new actions include quite a few warning letters. Here is the FTC database for COVID-19-related warning letters. Note that recently the FTC added a new, helpful option to view all of its warning letters here. It’s a good source …

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COVID-19 cellular medicine buzz: Mesoblast, FTC hammer, more

April 26, 2020 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

It’s been a busy week for the cellular and regenerative medicine space for COVID-19 news with some possible ups including for Mesoblast and some definite downs. Starting with the more positive media buzz with have Mesoblast. Mesoblast made COVID19 news “Thinly traded Mesoblast Limited (NASDAQ:MESO) rockets 51% premarket on average volume in reaction to its announcement of an …

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As Goop Lab TV show approaches, my look at their ‘stem cell’ products

January 8, 2020 September 22, 2022 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

Gwyneth Paltrow has a new Netflix show coming up in a couple of weeks called “The Goop Lab” and her Goop company promotes a lot of wacky things so one Sunday over lunch I thought I’d take a look at what they sell related to stem cells. Going into this, I didn’t know for sure …

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Giant Pumpkin Stem Cell Supplement Cream: Halloween Satire

October 31, 2016 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

We’ve bottled the power of giant pumpkin stem cell magic and are providing it to the world! Giant Pumpkin Stem Cell Elixir Anti-aging Supplement & Cream-In-OneTM is your ticket to a better life. What does this stem cell supplement do? It’s all good and huge! Celebrities are some of our biggest customers. Even if they …

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Big stem cell news: dynamic duo of all-chemical direct reprogramming reports

April 28, 2016 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

There’s some big, positive news on the stem cell front today. Two new innovative papers both by teams led by Sheng Ding of Gladstone Institutes with UCSF report all-chemical direct reprogramming of human somatic cells. Ding’s team took skin cells and by exposing them to cocktails of small molecules was able to turn them directly into …

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