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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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Bigger picture study casts big doubts on stem cells for knee arthritis today

March 26, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 34 Comments

Knee arthritis, stem cell therapy for knees

One of the most common claims made by unproven, for-profit stem cell clinics is that the stem cells they are selling can help knee arthritis and associated pain, but what is the evidence to back this up? There are many problems with the claims of stem cells for arthritis being made across the U.S. In

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List of regenerative medicine & stem cell meetings for rest of 2018

March 19, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

This post contains a list of the remaining regenerative medicine and stem cell meetings for 2018. If you are interested in history, here’s our first ever meetings list for way back in 2012. Here’s the 2018 list. 10th World Congress and Expo on Cell & Stem Cell Research, NY, NY USA, March 19-21, 2018. iPSCs: A

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What should we call “stem cell clinics” & is “snake oil” too harsh for some?

March 15, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 17 Comments

Is “snake oil” too harsh a term for some of what is sold at some of the worst stem cell clinics? Is the phrase “stem cell clinics” itself accurate and useful in a broad sense? When we read or write the phrase “stem cell clinics”, most people generally know what we’re talking about, but it

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