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Winner of The Screamers Science Hype Award: local TV stations pushing stem cell clinics

January 23, 2025 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

It’s important to pay attention to science hype, which is the rationale for The Screamers Science Hype Awards. As far as I know, it’s the only award for science hype. Exaggerating research and medical potential clearly does harm. I wrote a few weeks ago about the nominees for the 2024 The Screamers Awards. Now it’s […]

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Meet The Screamers Science Hype Awards 2024 nominees

December 26, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

Each year I give out The Screamers Awards. As far as I know it’s the only science hype award in the world. The Screamers Awards recognize extreme examples of science hype, most often by the media. The major focus is on the biomedical sciences, but other areas of science are eligible too. Last year, the

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Grading my 20 stem cell & regenerative medicine predictions for 2024

December 24, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Did you predict the major events in the stem cell and regenerative medicine field this year? I tried and today’s post are the grades on my predictions. Prediction is a key part of being a scientist even if we may not think about it that much. For instance, we have to try to predict what

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Poll on stem cell & regenerative medicine good news of 2024

November 15, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

What are the most significant stem cell and regenerative medicine good news stories of 2024? Since it has been an eventful year, there are many possibilities. Please see our poll at the bottom of this post and weigh in on what you think is the most important encouraging news. If you don’t see your choice

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RFK Jr on stem cells & his wacky war on the FDA

October 31, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 11 Comments

RFK Jr. on stem cells, stem cell clinics

It’s Halloween and one of the scariest things out there is a wild tweet from RFK Jr on stem cells and the FDA. Why worry what Kennedy thinks about such topics? Trump has indicated that Kennedy will have some major healthcare role in his second term should he be re-elected. The last thing we need

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Given their legal conflict, will Cryo-Cell & Duke still turn to donor units for kids with CP?

October 25, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

Duke Cryo-Cell therapeutic misconception

The Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Foundation recently announced that Cryo-Cell and its long-time partner, a Duke pediatric cell therapy team, have made a key change. They will begin offering infusions of unrelated, unproven cord blood to pediatric patients with cerebral palsy (CP). These are called donor infusions. Up until now, they had mainly focused

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Cryo-Cell alleges Duke acted “fraudulently” related to pediatric cord cell deal

October 17, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

Cord blood banker Cryo-Cell and Duke have had a long-running agreement. The potentially multi-million dollar deal has focused on the development of possible umbilical cord blood therapies for pediatric patients. A major first goal has been to open an infusion clinic, which I have been very skeptical about for various reasons. For instance, one big

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Weekly reads: hit pause on human life, CIRM pause, 23andMe data, blast from the past

October 13, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 20 Comments

Remember cryonics, the idea that you could hit pause on human life? This relies on the super-cold power of liquid nitrogen or some other ultra-freezing method. Apparently cryonics is still a thing and there are people with even just their heads frozen. A new story claims a different way to hit the pause button on

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Google AI overviews on stem cells are a bust so far & endanger public health

May 22, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

I’ve been wondering how the new Google AI overviews feature on its search platform would turn out for various stem cell searches. Frankly, I had a bad feeling that Google was going to blow this. Unfortunately, it seems even worse than I anticipated. Let’s go through three examples and talk about why this is so

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