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Interview with transhumanism leader Maria Konovalenko

July 6, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 21 Comments

The transhumanism movement has been garnering attention lately for a variety of views including embracing aspects of heritable human genetic modification. Earlier this year I interviewed geneticist and transhumanist, George Church. In this post I interview molecular biophysicist and transhumanist Maria Konovalenko. She is the program coordinator at the Science for Life Extension Foundation. In …

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4 areas of debate on 1st human embryo genetic modification paper

April 27, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

Last week was a big one for the life sciences in that we saw the milestone of the first ever published paper reporting human embryo genetic modification (see here and here). It was one of those situations where we knew it was coming, but it was still a jolt. Not surprisingly this event sparked intense discussion …

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Jennifer Doudna Interview on CRISPR, Human Gene Editing

April 14, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

I’m doing a series of interviews with leaders in the field on human germline modification with the first interview in this series with George Church and today’s second in this series is a conversation I had with Dr. Jennifer Doudna, a pioneer in CRISPR-Cas9 technology. Doudna is a Professor in MCB and Chemistry as well …

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George Church on Germline Human Genetic Modification

March 9, 2015 January 21, 2023 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 17 Comments

I recently interviewed leading genomics scientist George Church on the ways that trends in genomics are changing our world. We also discussed the possibility of heritable human genetic modification. These days we more often call this “CRISPR babies.” His answers suggest that genomics and gene editing are poised to radically change our world. They could literally …

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Monday, March 2: My Reddit AMA on 3-Person IVF – Mitochondrial Transfer

February 27, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

On Monday, I’ll be doing another Reddit AMA, this time on 3-person IVF also known as 3-parent IVF, mitochondrial transfer, 3-parent babies, etc. You can see the upcoming AMAs including mine listed in the right sidebar here. Mine will start at 10AM PST/1PM EST. I hope to discuss with a wide audience all the key …

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Super Science Weekend Reading

February 21, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

Here’s some thought-provoking weekend reading. ALEXEY. CLINICAL CELL PROCESSING NEWS – PART 1, 2015 BIOPOLITICAL TIMES. MITOCHONDRIAL MISSION CREEP AND THE CLONING CONNECTION CALIFORNIA STEM CELL REPORT. CALIFORNIA’S BOB KLEIN PROPOSES $100 BILLION, INTERNATIONAL STEM CELL/GENOMICS VENTURE CARL ZIMMER. A NEW THEORY ON HOW NEANDERTHAL DNA SPREAD IN ASIA DN LEE. YOU SHOULD KNOW: MICHELLE HUNTER AND EXPLORING NEUROSCIENCE THROUGH …

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Big push for 3-parent IVF technology in UK

January 30, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

A new piece came out yesterday on the Wellcome Trust Blog, strongly promoting approval of so-called “3-Parent IVF” or Mitochondrial Transfer technology by the UK Parliament. As I written in the past (here and here), my view is that this would be a mistake at this time. There is room for respectful disagreement on this issue between scientists, …

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About Us, The Niche and Knoepfler Lab

The Niche is the top, most authoritative stem cell and regenerative medicine blog on the web and the only one to our knowledge written by a professor. It is mainly written by Professor Paul Knoepfler of UC Davis School of Medicine, an internationally respected stem cell biologist and educator. Knoepfler is an advocate of rigorous …

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Cloning Factory in China Has Familiar Partner: Hwang Woo-Suk

December 2, 2014 October 28, 2023 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Cloning of animals is becoming a big, global business, and Hwang Woo-Suk is a major player here. Hwang Woo-Suk and animal cloning It turns out that this reproductive cloning of animals goes well beyond making duplicates of pets for sentimental customers at $100,000 a copy. Cloning of livestock by agribusinesses is becoming fairly common. Some …

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