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Short-term safety of lab-grown stem cells for arthritis: encouraging, but key caveats

July 25, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

A new paper suggests a hopeful short-term safety profile of laboratory-grown stem cells for treatment of arthritis, but there are some important limitations to the study too. A debate continues to bubble over whether to classify laboratory-propagated stem cells as biological drugs. A persistent issue has been whether the growth of stem cells in culture […]

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Disease Focus Series

November 8, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Cancer Stem Cells: a new target Disease Focus Series: Cancer Disease Focus Series: HIV/AIDS Disease Focus Series: Spinal Cord InjuryDisease Focus Series: Osteoarthritis research moving forward Disease Focus Series: Parkinson’s Disease and promising new pre-clinical results from iPS cells Disease Focus Series: a big week of exciting progress on Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s Disease Disease Focus

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Did Celltex just get an FDA warning letter?

October 1, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

Did Celltex just get an FDA warning letter? I’m not sure. We may find out tomorrow as the FDA updates their public warning letter list early in the week. What’s Celltex? Celltex is that famous stem cell company in Sugarland, Texas that gave Guv Rick Perry stem cell transplants. It was inspected by the FDA

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Stem cells for arthritis: are we there yet?

August 4, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

Knee arthritis, stem cell therapy for knees

Can stem cells treat the different forms of arthritis that plague 100s of millions of people across the globe? A couple years back I did a post in my disease focus series on the potential of stem cells to be used as treatments for osteoarthritis (OA). OA affects almost 30 million people in the U.S.

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Stem cells for Alzheimer’s Disease?

May 16, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Alzheimers disease, Alzheimers disease stem cell

How promising is the idea of stem cells for Alzheimer’s Disease? Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is one of the most devastating illnesses that the human race has ever faced. It literally destroys the brain, which shrinks as a result over time (see image at left from Wikipedia). The toll of AD is not only measured in

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Short-term safety of lab-grown stem cells for arthritis: encouraging, but key caveats

Disease Focus Series

Did Celltex just get an FDA warning letter?

Stem cells for arthritis: are we there yet?

Stem cells for Alzheimer’s Disease?