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Tex Guv Rick Perry Gets Stem Cell Treatment: what if ES cells were his only hope?

August 4, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

The Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry, an opponent of Embryonic Stem (ES) cell research, has reportedly undergone an experimental procedure on his spine involving autologous transplantation of adult stem cells taken from his hip. The procedure, which is not FDA approved and costs tens of thousands of dollars, has no proven track record of success […]

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Victory for science and patients: what the appeals court ES cell ruling means (UPDATE)

April 29, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

A Federal Appeals Court ruled 2-1 today to overturn Judge Lamberth’s injunction against federal funding of ES cell research. Great news! You can read the decision here (warning: big pdf). A key part of the ruling was the following: “the plaintiffs are unlikely to prevail because Dickey-Wicker is ambiguous and the NIH seems reasonably to

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Opponents of ES cell research launch stealth attack in Minnesota

March 18, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

What’s going on with legislation on ES cell research in Minnesota? I blogged before about how Oklahoma legislators were heading toward passing legislation that would make it a crime to do ES cell research. Unfortunately, that legislation just passed. As if that were not bad enough, now potentially life saving research in Minnesota is starting

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Oklahoma leaders: ES cell research is not OK

February 28, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

The Oklahoma State Legislature is reportedly poised to potentially pass an outright ban of ES cell research. While in the past similar legislation was vetoed by previous Oklahoma Governor, Democrat Brad Henry, current Republican Governor Mary Fallin is likely to sign the legislation. The Oklahoman newspaper website today contains a factually incorrect, inflammatory piece by

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Could iPS cells replace ES cells?

February 2, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Could iPS cells replace ES cells? A new paper is out from a team at The Salk lead by Joseph Ecker that the methylomes of many different human iPS cells. Their conclusion is that while iPS cells and ES cells are generally very similar in terms of the global portions of the genomes that are

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Appeals Court Stays Injunction, ES cell research remains legal

September 28, 2010 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

The BLT is reporting that the DC Circuit Appeals Court has sided with the government and has stayed Judge Lamberth’s injunction against ES cell research. Great news! And I’m happy to admit our grim predictions yesterday were wrong. The judges took the action in a “per curiam” judgement, meaning collectively. So we will not know

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Grim reality of the impact of judge’s ES cell decision is emerging

August 24, 2010 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

Francis-Collins-ES-cell-research-lawsuit

The Obama administration has announced it will “quickly” appeal the ES cell decision, but I’m not hearing anything about a stay on the judge’s order in the meantime or anything like that. It’s quite the opposite. The NIH, in the form of Director Francis Collins, has finally spoken about the federal judge’s ruling that apparently banned

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Weekly reads: patient views on stem cell clinics, vertebrate super-pygmies, Tasmanian tiger, low back pain

November 3, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

What do patients who go to stem cell clinics really think of their experiences? It can be hard to get good data on this important question. For that reason, it was great to see a new article on this topic. With perhaps around 2,000 unproven clinics in the U.S., these firms are likely to have

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FDA’s CBER fires off 3 more warning letters on cellular biologics for a total of 12 in 2024

October 29, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

Something seems to have dramatically changed with the FDA at its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research or CBER. Did they start handing out free Red Bull by the case? So many recent FDA warnings on cell and tissue biologics CBER is the part of the FDA that regulates regenerative medicine products like stem cells,

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Joe Rogan shows more love for unproven stem cells despite risks

October 23, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 10 Comments

Cellular Performance Institute, CPI Tijuana

Joe Rogan just keeps glowing about clinics offering unproven stem cells like most recently the Cellular Performance Institute in Tijuana. Often Joe talks about his own experiences getting stem cells, but other times he refers anecdotally to others who supposedly had great experiences. While it’s not unusual for some celebrities to get stem cells at

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