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Stem cell deregulation push is deadly serious threat to the field and patients

April 20, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

The heat is rising in a push to deregulate dubious adult stem cell therapies and it is Republicans turning up the thermostat on this emerging pet issue of theirs. We’ve seen the Texas Medical Board passing weak rules for regulating adult stem cell therapies under pressure from Rick Perry and adult stem cell biotech, Celltex. […]

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The Titanic & Dubious Adult Stem Cell Clinics

April 7, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, April 12th, is rapidly approaching and I think there are some lessons there for the stem cell field. The Titanic was hyped as a marvel of modern technology, widely advertised as huge, unsinkable and fast. An unexpected combination….almost too good to be true. This portrayal of

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The war propaganda myth of adult versus embryonic stem cells hurts everyone

February 16, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

If someone is not in a war, but someone else declares war on them or actually attacks them, I would say the reality is that war has started and there are two opposing sides. However, has that happened when it comes to stem cells? Are we in a stem cell war? There have been times

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CIRM goes genomic: the California stem cell agency focuses on DNA

January 22, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

In June 2011 I did a post about genomics and its growing importance both for science and society. The stem cell field has a very rapidly accelerating genomic component as well. I went so far as to call it a revolution and I still believe that is not an exaggeration. CIRM has rightly recognized the

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Key points about adult versus embryonic stem cells

November 8, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

What with the Mississippi “personhood” amendment up for a vote today and also the Vatican Adult Stem Cell Conference beginning tomorrow, I thought today was a good time for a post about adult versus embryonic stem cells. Does stem cell research have to be either/or? Adult or stem? Can’t someone be for both adult and

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Stem cell sports medicine: a miraculous or disastrous combo?

October 19, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Stem cell sports medicine is emerging as a new area of medicine. As the list of star athletes and other celebs that have received dubious stem cell treatments grows longer, I don’t think there is any question but that this turn of events will be the spark that drives hundreds of ordinary people to get

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World Stem Cell Summit Day 2: scientists just stick to facts?

October 4, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

Today I was part of a panel discussion on social media for the stem cell cause at the World Stem Cell Summit. My fellow World Stem Cell Summit panel speakers John Hlinko, Amy Adams, and Don Reed all did a great job. Something that one of speakers said in the session that ended right before

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Disease Focus Series: Stem cells for HIV/AIDS

October 2, 2010 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

2020 update: This post from almost 10 years ago on the HIV pandemic and particularly the first paragraph ring differently in the context of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic. Over the last several years, there has been great concern about a possible flu pandemic around the world, but meanwhile the great pandemic of modern history,

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Weekly reads: stem cells everywhere, MSCs for MS?, nanostickers, Makary update

May 11, 2025 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

It was another crazy week for me with tons of grant work, but news and research in the regenerative medicine world keep on popping up including a paper on MSCs for MS. I’ve realized that even when I’m trying to take a short break, I often see science and signs of stem cells popping up

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Google’s Gemini AI schools Google Search on its risky stem cell results

April 30, 2025 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

Readers of The Niche will probably recall that I’ve been critical of Google Search on stem cells. The search engine giant does unintended promotion of unproven stem cells and the clinics that sell them, like a Ukrainian clinic whose website Google still seems to view as the world’s expert on stem cells for autism, which,

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