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Monkey human embryo chimera Cell paper: exciting, ethically complex direction

April 15, 2021 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

A new Cell paper from an international team led by Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte pushes human embryo chimera embryo research further than ever before. It is both exciting work and raises many complex bioethics questions at the same time. What is a human embryo chimera? By way of background, chimeric human embryos contain a mixture […]

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50 influencers on stem cells on Twitter to follow in 2021

April 13, 2021 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

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When it comes to stem cells on Twitter and other social media, who do you follow now? Why them? Who are the top stem cell and regenerative medicine influencers to follow on Twitter and elsewhere in 2021? Stem cells on Twitter: great content amongst the noise Terrapin asked this kind of broad question to some

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Weekly reads: NIH genome editing, gut stem cells & diet, more

April 11, 2021 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

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The first of the month often brings loads of new papers as new issues of journals come out so we have a wave of new stem cell papers. By the way, be sure to enter our stem cell picture contest to try to win $100 or a bundle of stem cell swag. There’s less than

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The Niche 2021 stem cell picture contest: win $100 or swag

April 9, 2021 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

Every so often here on The Niche, I run some contests just to make things fun and today I have a new one to announce. The contest is for the best stem cell research images. Most often what people send in as entries are microscopy pictures, but you can use your imagination. You can see

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Stem cell therapy for knees 2024: fact-check, costs, risks

April 6, 2021 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 9 Comments

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One of the most common questions I get from patients is about stem cell therapy for knees. Can it help knee arthritis and pain? Today’s post is a fact-check of where things stand today in 2024 on stem cells for knee issues. You can watch a video overview of this stem cell therapy for knees

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Weekly reads: stem cell videos, cystic fibrosis, papers

April 4, 2021 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

As part of our weekly reads I’m including one of my latest videos in our Stem Cell Channel on YouTube below. This particular video fact-checks stem cell face creams, but I’ve got quite a few more including on stem cell supplements, different kinds of stem cells and more. You might guess my view of such

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Snake oil history from century old elixirs to fake stem cells

March 30, 2021 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

I remember seeing a cowboy-type TV show when I was a little kid where a guy pulled into town not slinging guns but selling snake oil. He stood right up on his wagon and started pitching the wonders of what he was selling. He had some buyers pretty quick. Eventually, someone like a sheriff or

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Fact-checking stem cell face cream: less than face value

March 25, 2021 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

Stem cell face cream. Taking a humorous look at what these might do.

I remember the first time I ran across an ad for a stem cell face cream and it wasn’t pretty. This was about 10 years ago. The stem cell cream in question made several claims that seemed highly doubtful. In a sense what the cream’s maker was selling was the idea of stem cell-based youth

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How much does stem cell therapy cost in 2023?

March 22, 2021 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

One of the most common questions I’ve gotten over the last decade is, “how much does stem cell therapy cost?” They actually seem most often to want to know more specifically how much it should cost. To try to authoritatively answer this now in 2023 we need data from the present and past along with expert

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Autologous vs allogeneic: all you need to know on therapy

March 22, 2021 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

There are many ways to classify different stem cells. These differences include yours versus someone else’s cells. Another distinct in a clinical sense is what we call an autologous vs allogeneic stem cell transplant. This post is focused on the difference between allogeneic (someone else’s cells) and autologous (your own) stem cell injections. As a

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