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Rick Perry plugs Celltex MSCs on Fox for COVID-19 prevention

July 2, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 10 Comments

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Why is former Texas Governor/Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry plugging unproven stem cells from a clinic firm called Celltex for COVID-19 prevention on Fox News? Perry follows in Giuliani’s footsteps? And more generally, what is it with conservative politicians promoting unproven therapies for COVID-19 and in particular stem cells for the novel coronavirus disease? First, […]

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BARDA drops funding of research into stem cells for COVID-19

June 29, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 14 Comments

Katie Thomas at the New York Times reports that BARDA has dropped considering funding applications for stem cells for COVID-19. The move is part of a larger shift in funding priorities away from lung treatments and toward vaccine development. The decision has puzzled and even angered some stem cell firms and researchers. BARDA stands for

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20 best biology & stem cell blogs for 2021

June 25, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

Today’s post lists the best stem cell blogs and more generally the top biology blogs as well as websites. Making lists of “the best” of anything is fun yet tricky. However, I feel that it can also serve a purpose as a resource. You might also enjoy these other “top” lists I’ve done including List of

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Weekly roundup: CAR-T cells, exosomes, trout cloning

June 21, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

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My weekly roundups of biomedical news tend to focus on stem cells, but I read more broadly so it’s not just stem cells but also CAR-T cells and a lot more this week. CAR-T cells as senolytics? A team led by Scott Lowe has a new intriguing paper in Nature on using CAR-T cells to

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How much does stem cell therapy cost in 2022?

June 16, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 16 Comments

One of the most common questions that patients have asked me over the last decade is, “how much does stem cell therapy cost?” They actually seem most often to want to know more specifically how much the treatments should cost. To try to authoritatively answer this we need data from the present and past along

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Stem cell reads: IPS cells, p53, mini-livers, baldness

June 7, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

We’ve had another week of interesting stem cell news and papers. Here is an aggregate of the stem cell and regenerative medicine week that was. Stem cell therapy for baldness I’ve covered stem cells for hair loss for about a decade here on The Niche. While it seems like it’s taken a long time for

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Stem Cells Journal List, Impact Factors

June 2, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

What are the best stem cells journal resources in 2023 and is there a stem cell journal list out there? I seem to have the only list, other than Google itself. I’ve covered this topic for many years. In this post I have updated the material from over the years and dug more deeply into

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What is PRP injection cost, risks, & possible benefits

May 27, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 16 Comments

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What is platelet-rich plasma or PRP injection cost and is it worth trying? The goal of today’s post is to fact-check PRP based on the scientific literature and educate readers including on PRP cost. What is in this article PRP is getting more popular | Is it worth it? | What exactly is PRP?

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Authors on The Niche

May 15, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

The Niche has had many authors over the years, focusing on expertise in the biomedical arena and in particular related to stem cells. I’ve invited many authorities in particular areas to write posts. Over the years I’ve written probably 99+% of the posts here on The Niche, but we’ve also had some great guest authors

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Field throws stem cells for COVID-19 like spaghetti on the wall

May 13, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 12 Comments

The idea of testing stem cells for COVID-19 may be music to the ears of some folks as an opportunity, but to me from the beginning it sounded mostly like a spaghetti on the wall road to trouble. There is buzz out there that some kind of stem cells or other cells will help with

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