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Blunt comment from stem cell industry insider in defense of RTT & Texas Law

July 18, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

My recent post on the push for National Right-To-Try (RTT) including a detailed comment from ISSCR stirred some animated feedback. In the spirit of encouraging diverse discussion, here I am posting a striking comment I received from a stem cell industry insider regarding that post on RTT as it relates to stem cells and s/he was especially […]

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Push for National Right-To-Try Law Raises Concerns in Stem Cell Community

July 13, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

Right-To-Try laws have been passed in many states across America, paving the way in theory for gravely ill patients to have the right to try unproven treatments of various kinds, and now there is a serious push underway for a national Right-To-Try law. What is a Right-To-Try law? Typically, these Right-To-Try laws allow for a patient

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Money talks: stem cell clinic ads mushrooming in mainstream media

July 12, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Over the years I’ve been keeping my eyes open for advertising by stem cell clinics and lately the trend is big splashy ads in mainstream media including large daily newspapers such as the SacBee, the San Francisco Chronicle, and now the Seattle times (see below from today’s). These kinds of big ad buys on front or

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FDA warp speed RMAT approval nukes stem cell clinic excuses

June 15, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Many stem cell clinics are in a bind in 2017 in the new RMAT approval reality. Stem cell clinics say that they only want to help people by providing stem cell therapies to patients in a speedier way that they claim getting FDA approval for a trial just doesn’t allow, but that doesn’t ring true.

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Bioquark “reawaken” the dead with stem cells plan just zombie fodder?

June 6, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

A company called Bioquark reportedly claims it intends to bring back the dead, as in deceased people or at least brain dead people, with stem cells. Or at least awaken their brains. If it works, would those people be like zombies? Is it ethical to experiment in this way on dead people? Bioquark We first

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3 Dangerous Texas Bills Would Boost Stem Cell Clinics

May 8, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 11 Comments

The Calexit and Texit state secession campaigns for California and Texas to leave the union, which are linked to Russian President Putin, are never going to be successful. However, if some Texas lawmakers and stem cell clinics there have their way, Texas would take a big step away from the rest of us on the stem cell

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Cell Surgical Network, largest group of US clinics, using lab-expanded stem cells in patients?

February 15, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 19 Comments

Is the largest affiliated group of stem cell clinics in America, Cell Surgical Network, now using laboratory-proliferated stem cells in patients? Do they already have some kind of final FDA approval for this clinical approach given that lab-grown stem cells are generally viewed as drugs requiring premarket approval? Over the years I’ve reached out to

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2nd lawsuit alleging a U.S. stem cell clinic caused blindness

November 28, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Concerns over stem cell clinics allegedly causing blindness or other vision problems have been increasing in 2016. If this is in fact happening, the extra sad part of this is that some clinics have claimed that they are doing the opposite: improving vision in patients. What are the concerns? Earlier this year a publicly-traded stem

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No radical life extension, says Nature paper, but Russian gets stem cell infusion to go for it

October 6, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 9 Comments

Any takers on the idea that we can get radical life extension through new technologies like stem cells, organ replacement, cybernetics, or genetic modification? Or just through healthier living in general? A new Nature paper says there’s a natural limit on human lifespan around age 115 and getting past that is just not going to

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Where does stem cell business Stemedica go from here after KPBS investigative report?

October 5, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 9 Comments

For quite a while there San Diego-based stem cell business Stemedica had a good run of publicity with reports of high-profile professional sports legends getting stem cells and the media reporting apparent good outcomes for stroke recovery, but more recent times have yielded some different publicity. An investigative report by KPBS reporter David Wagner raised some

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