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While my gel was running: advice for success for science newbies

January 21, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

What does it take to succeed in research including for science newbies? Here are some key ingredients in my opinion after 22 years in academic science. Passion. One important ingredient that we cannot necessarily change significantly about ourselves, but that I think nonetheless is crucial for success, is a true excitement for science. Sometimes people […]

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What does Geron’s departure mean for ACT? Some perspectives

January 19, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

About two months about Geron shocked and disappointed the stem cell community by dropping its stem cell program. The move was reportedly made for financial, not scientific reasons. Biotech companies have to be financially sound in order to help stem cell researchers turn science into cures and Geron’s leadership had to do what it thought

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Word Cloud of Every CIRM-funded grant yields some surprising insights

January 2, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

CIRM, the California stem cell agency, has funded hundreds of grants during its relatively short existence. You can do searches of these grants through a handy dandy web portal that CIRM has made available–it’s a very cool tool and I commend CIRM for making it available. I wish the tool had more options however including

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My 2 years living with cancer, what I learned from Steve Jobs

November 30, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

What’s it like living with cancer? Exactly two years ago today, I was lying in a hospital bed literally across the street from lab here at UC Davis. It seems unreal in a way, but painfully real it was and still is. On November 30, 2009, I had surgery for prostate cancer. Two years ago,

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Is a fertilized egg a Californian? Personhood movement brings battle to California

November 22, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

What is the Personhood movement ? Remember those folks who were pushing an amendment in Mississippi that would have defined the one cell fertilized egg as a full blown person with all the same rights as a living, breathing, thinking Mississippian? Now the new battlefront for their movement is California. They want to get an

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The Scarlett letter? What the experts really think about Geron

November 15, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

The grapevine is afire with the Geron news and there are many interpretations out there of what it means and why it happened. Based on several accounts from folks who remain anonymous, here is the most probable prediction of what happened to lead us to yesterday’s announcement. Geron has been worried for a long time

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Bad news as Geron to quit hESC SCI trial for financial reasons

November 14, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

Reportedly, Geron has decided to only focus on cancer research and for financial reasons has shut down its hESC trial for spinal cord injury. This is a very sad day for stem cell science. (Update in 2020: the firm still exists, but is working in different areas. The stock has struggled.) No more spinal cord

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Why Horton was wrong: a person is not a person no matter how small, even in Mississippi

November 7, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

Tomorrow night voters in Mississippi will vote on the so-called “Personhood Amendment”. If passed, the amendment would make a fertilized egg by definition a human being with the same rights as a living, breathing, thinking, walking person in the state of Mississippi. The consequences are not clear, but possibilities include such things as complete bans on

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Six fun, amazing, sometimes secret things to do in Seattle

October 28, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

Every now and then I do a post on something fun and non-science related, and today it’s all about Seattle. Since it’s Friday, don’t you wish you were on vacation in Seattle? If you can ever imagine visiting Seattle in the near future, bookmark this page because I give suggestions for great things (some that

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Comment from Roger Highfield, editor of The New Scientist

October 25, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

In response to our post on the recent New Scientist article, which we felt had an anti-ES cell bent, Roger Highfield has responded. He wrote: New Scientist has always backed well-conducted research on ES cells and I have voiced my own support many times, notably in After Dolly (written with Ian Wilmut). And I am

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