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StemGenex, unproven clinic sued by patients, morphs into Advanced Cell Medicine?

June 19, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

The unproven stem cell clinic StemGenex appears to now be called Advanced Cell Medicine. StemGenex is facing a proposed class action lawsuit by patients and it also recently received an FDA warning letter. StemGenex is notable too in that it seemed to be considering taking some extreme action against perceived critic websites including potentially the […]

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50 stem cell influencers on Twitter to follow in 2019

February 25, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

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Who are the top stem cell and regenerative medicine influencers to follow on Twitter and elsewhere in 2019? Terrapin asked this kind of broad question to some within our community about 5 years ago and came up with a Top 50 list of stem cell influencers, which I like to joke I was “at the top

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Recent stem cell pubs & news: reprogramming, chromatin, single-cell, Astellas, & more

February 18, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

What new papers and news in the stem cell sphere caught your eye? Here are some recent items that seem notable to me. Diabetes relief in mice by glucose-sensing insulin-secreting human α-cells. This paper reports cellular reprogramming to insulin-producing cells in mice. They reprogrammed α-cells with Pdx1 and MafA proteins. ‘Mitophagy inhibits amyloid-β and tau pathology and reverses

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Stem cell & regenerative medicine good news including Fate Therapeutics

January 13, 2019 / 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 / 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 / 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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Sizing Up Sizzling FDA Warning Letter to Fat Stem Cell Clinic Stemgenex

November 14, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Do the hundreds of unproven fat stem cell clinics in the U.S. like Stemgenex have a tenable future without working with the FDA? It seems less certain now in 2018 than it did in 2017, and that’s a good thing in my view. Stemgenex received an FDA warning letter yesterday that included a list of many

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Midterm grades on my 20 x 2018 stem cell predictions

June 27, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Every year in December I go out onto a limb and make stem cell predictions for the coming year as I did in late 2017 for this year. Then usually around the 1/2-way point through the year I check in on how the predictions are faring so far at that point. In this post I give

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TV Journalists Tackling Stem Cell Clinics

May 30, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

Even as some unproven, for-profit stem cell clinics promote themselves aggressively in many ways including now on TV, on the flip side lately we’ve seen more TV journalists covering questionable marketing by the clinics and negative patient outcomes. Today I saw that CBS This Morning, a national broadcast, had a fairly long TV segment on stem

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Stem cell news update: the good, the bad, & the weird

May 6, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

With stem cells there’s always all kinds of developments and news every week or even every day. Here is an assortment in no particular order of some of the latest news including some across the spectrum including weird and sometimes stuff. The linked phrases are often the actual headlines of the media pieces. New CIRM

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