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Interview with transhumanism leader Maria Konovalenko

July 6, 2015 / 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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Landmark IPSC clinical study on hold due to genomic issue

July 1, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 42 Comments

The pioneering induced pluripotent stem cell (IPSC) clinical study in Japan led by top stem cell clinical researcher Dr. Masayo Takahashi has been stopped reports the WSJ in Japan. This development is confirmed by other sources and in a PDF report by RIKEN (in Japanese here). One patient was transplanted in September 2014 with their own IPSC-derived

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Carla Kim & Hans Clevers talks on organoids at #ISSCR2015

June 26, 2015 / Heather Main / 4 Comments

Organoids are pretty big in stem cells right now with the last couple of years having attracted a lot of media attention on mini lungs, mini brains, mini kidneys, mini guts and more, giving the impression that scientists know how to specify and organise cells into mini functional organs in the lab. Organoids have become

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Overview of Yamanaka Talk at #ISSCR2015 by Heather Main

June 25, 2015 / Heather Main / 1 Comment

The day of plenary is the most enjoyable in my view including at ISSCR 2015 on the first day with a Yamanaka talk. You don’t need to make the choice between sessions and the judgement on the viability of shifting sessions versus staying put and listening to the slightly less relevant. ISSCR 2015 plenary was,

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Sally Temple on adult RPEs for vision impairment, IND, & more

June 17, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

At the recent RPI stem cell and bioengineering meeting, the Neural Stem Cell Institute’s Sally Temple talked about her group’s intriguing retinal pigmented epithelial cell (RPE) research. With the broad focus of attention in the world of RPEs mostly on those derived from either human ESC or IPSC, it was exciting to here about the

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Will bioengineered body parts cost an arm and a leg?

June 4, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

The idea that we could bioengineer new human body parts to replace old, faulty ones is exciting, and such parts could include limbs, digits, or even entire organs. Such replacements might be produced using stem cells, 3-D printers, and other rapidly evolving, cutting edge technologies. Sci-fi is becoming a reality. Remember in Star Wars when

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Americans relatively more comfortable with human cloning

June 2, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

What is morally acceptable and where do we draw the line at behaviors that might just go too far such as human reproductive cloning? Over the years American attitudes have shifted on a number of potentially hot button moral behaviors including reproductive human cloning and pollsters including Gallup have tracked these attitudes. Gallup just came out

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CIRM 2.0 starts off with a bang

May 31, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

CIRM has reinvented itself in a new form, CIRM 2.0, under the leadership of its new President Randy Mills. CIRM is almost like a stem cell that has changed into another new kind of stem cell. Us scientists could see the change coming in the “programming” at CIRM in terms of how it was operating as

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CRISPR critters: Cute pics of Cas9 gene edited animals

May 24, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

As CRISPR gene editing technology has advanced in the last few years, the number of genetically modified animals made with this system has steadily increased. Some are very interesting and useful for science. At the same time especially when they are little, they can be very cute. A nickname is going around for these GM

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Public polling on human gene editing, moratorium

May 21, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Many of us scientists, ethicists, and legal scholars are working on educational outreach to the public on the potential use of gene editing technologies like CRISPR to genetically modify human beings, but clearly there’s a long way to go and much more to do on this front. By the way, you may find this new

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