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Autologous or Allogeneic: a stem cell question (guest post from Jeanne Loring)

January 19, 2019 December 22, 2023 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 20 Comments

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By Jeanne Loring What can you do with cells that live forever and can make every cell type in the body? The answer is: remarkable things, as new reports of clinical trials using cell types derived from pluripotent stem cells indicate. Pluripotent stem cells are either derived from embryos donated from IVF procedures (human embryonic …

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Stem cell & regenerative medicine good news including Fate Therapeutics

January 13, 2019 December 22, 2023 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

In the past month or two there has been a steady stream of good news in the stem cell and regenerative medicine world. Here are three examples starting with Fate Therapeutics. Fate Therapeutics Fate Therapeutics announced the first US IND for an induced pluripotent stem cell (IPSC)-related product. Its cleared product, FT500, is an off-the-shelf …

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20 stem cell & regenerative medicine predictions for 2019

January 2, 2019 June 8, 2022 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

For a long time at the end of each year, I’ve been making stem cell predictions for the coming year. Most often I’ve been making a “top 20” list of predictions and today’s post has my list for 2019. You can see how I did for 2018 here, which might have been my best year …

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Good final grades on my 20 x 2018 stem cell predictions

December 26, 2018 December 22, 2023 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Each year I make a list of stem cell predictions for the following year and I’ll release my predictions for 2019 soon, but first I’m grading how my 20 predictions for 2018 turned out. It seems I did better than usual predicting what would happen this year. I only got a couple partial credit or …

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Reading list of recent stem cell pubs & headlines

January 18, 2018 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

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2018 has started quickly on the stem cell and regenerative medicine research front with many interesting new papers and a lot of headlines. You can see my predictions for this year here. Below is a list of some of the more notable papers and striking news headlines. Note that just because I listed a news …

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20 predictions for stem cells & regenerative medicine in 2018

December 31, 2017 December 22, 2023 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

Every year I look into my stem cell crystal ball and make predictions for our field including regenerative medicine. Well, I don’t really look into a crystal ball, but I try to use a combination of what I’m hearing through the grapevine, stuff I’m reading, some info that is not yet in the public domain, …

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20 Stem Cell Person of The Year 2017 Award Nominees

November 26, 2017 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Nominations have closed for the 2017 Stem Cell Person of the Year Award and we have a great group of nominees. I’ve listed them below in alphabetical order, along with a bit of description of who they are, which includes in some cases the language used by the nominator(s). Where possible I’ve included a link …

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Cool stem cell papers: antibody reprogramming, organoids, gravity, & more

September 13, 2017 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

The past few weeks have brought some exciting, thought-provoking stem cell papers and developments in the regenerative medicine field. Here’s a list of stem cell papers in the media that struck me as particularly cool along with some other developments in the field. Human Stem Cells Fight Parkinson’s Disease in Monkeys Organoids Reveal Clues to Gut-Brain …

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Takahashi team IPS cell vision paper marks major stem cell milestone

March 16, 2017 December 22, 2023 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Ring the bell for a stem cell milestone, specifically for iPS cell work. There’s been a whole lot of commotion about the NEJM article yesterday documenting the experiences of three women with macular degeneration who were blinded by non-FDA approved stem cell eye injections of fat stem cells at a business in Florida, but in the …

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20 Nominees for Stem Cell Person of the Year 2016 Award

December 4, 2016 December 22, 2023 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

I received a score of great nominations for the Stem Cell Person of the Year 2016 Award and have briefly described the twenty nominees below. The point of the award is to honor the top positive stem cell leader who specifically thinks outside the box and takes risks. I’ve started an on-line vote where you can vote once per day for …

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