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Stem cell frauds Morales and Stowe plead guilty to federal charges: who’s next?

September 7, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

Francisco Morales and Lawrence Stowe, have pleaded guilty to federal charges related to dubious stem cell treatments. The pair pled guilty to conspiracy charges related to introducing “misbranded and unapproved new drugs into interstate commerce”. The drugs in question? Stem cells. Patrick J. Holland of the FDA said “the FDA is committed to investigating those […]

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Stem cells for autism: are we there yet?

August 21, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

Autism affects millions of children in the U.S. alone; could stem cells for autism help? It is a perplexing spectrum of disorders with “autism” being an umbrella term for a host of related neurological illnesses. The negative impact of autism on our society transcends economics, but has been estimated at 10s of billions of dollars.

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If Rick Perry is Prez what’s impact on stem cell research?

August 13, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

We have a running series here on The Niche on the Republican candidates including Rick Perry for the GOP nomination for President for the 2012 Election. I blogged about Romney here, Huntsman here, and talked about Tex Guv Perry’s own stem cell transplant here. I also discussed the Republican field more generally in my podcast

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Why I am super optimistic about the future of CIRM

June 30, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

In the last week, a number of newspapers in California have run articles or editorials about CIRM, some negative. I think in part this attention was stimulated by the Election of a new Chair at CIRM. The new Chair for CIRM is Dr. Jonathan Thomas, who I am confident will do an outstanding job. On

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Update on the stem cell field: Spring 2011

March 16, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

How are things looking for the stem cell field for Spring 2011? Issue One. Getting to the clinic. At this point, Geron and ACT have their FDA-approved clinical trials underway using derivatives of human embryonic stem cells. As expected no news has leaked out on how things are going and it may well be Fall

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Update on the stem cell field: Spring 2011