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George Church: ‘Adventurous’ woman sought to carry Neanderthal baby

January 22, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

The headline quoting George Church reads: ‘Adventurous’ woman sought to carry Neanderthal baby Supposedly Harvard Geneticist George Church, according to Der Spiegel magazine (and gazillions of other mainstream media outlets that translated the German piece including here), wants to clone a Neanderthal baby using an unholy combination of stem cell and genetics technologies. The only problem […]

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My R01 is due in a few hours, what’s on my mind besides ice cream?

October 2, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

In a few hours I’m going to submit my current R01 proposal to my institutional grants office, which will then submit it to NIH as is required by NIH. I’m tired. My brain is tired. I have a cold. I’ve read the grant a hundred times at least. I’ve had colleagues read it. I’ve taken

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Houston stem cell meeting lacks diversity & risks falling to groupthink

September 14, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Next month there is going to be a new stem cell meeting taking place. The 1st Annual Houston Stem Cell Summit. The primary sponsor is Celltex. I’d encourage everyone to go, but I’m not so sure it’d be worth it. Why? I’m always glad to see another stem cell meeting and this one is surely unique in

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Making sense of the extreme makeover for DNA dark matter: from genomic ‘junk’ to treasure trove

September 5, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

The fields of science related to DNA have for a long time been gene-centric. By this I mean that most scientists working in these areas have focused their attention and their efforts on the genes that make the proteins and RNAs that are the workers of the cell. What’s left over that wasn’t genes mainly

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Seven sins of scientists part 6: quid pro quo

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

I’ve been blogging about the darker side of science in a seven part series on what I call scientific sinning or the “seven sins of scientists”. You can see the first 5 posts here as a group, which have generated a ton of interest and many thousands of reads each. The first five posts are specifically

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Question of the week: is there stem cell doping in the Olympics?

August 1, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

Has there been stem cell doping in the Olympics? Readers of this blog have been asking me this question more than any other in the last week. Part of the impetus for this question is the growing number of professional athletes who more generally have received dubious stem cell treatments in foreign countries, perhaps treatments

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Seven Sins of Scientists Part 4: science hype

May 7, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

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I’m discussing the seamier side of science in a seven part series on what I call scientific sinning, including science hype. The first three pieces in this series covered Failure to Cite, Paper or grant killing and a Need for Speed. Today we talk about how bad it can get when scientists hype their work and I’m going

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More on the Irish Stem Cell War and free access to Irish Newspaper Article

April 25, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

The stem cell field is truly global. However, sometimes those of us who do research and/or act as patient advocates here in the U.S. need to wake up from a bit of tunnel vision and realize that there are critical fights going on over stem cell research elsewhere in the world. These are crucially important.

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Stem Cell Conflict Erupting in Ireland

April 22, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 12 Comments

A new article out by Susan Mitchell covers the key elements of a brewing, serious conflict in Ireland over stem cells. You can read the piece here, but warning you have to pay to read it. Here in this blog post I analyze the situation and give important quotes from the article. A pro-adult stem

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