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Stem cell story of the year: human therapeutic cloning

December 18, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

There have been many interesting developments in stem cells in 2013, but to me the biggest event by far was the first ever successful somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)-based human therapeutic cloning. This approach generated apparently genetically normal human embryonic stem cells (hESC), an astonishing accomplishment. There are two kinds of human cloning: therapeutic and reproductive. […]

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Saga of Texas Stem Cell Clinic Celltex Continues

December 17, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 17 Comments

Remember the Texas stem cell clinic Celltex, most famous for treating Texas Governor Rick Perry? Celltex had a busy few years, but has been relatively under the radar for most of 2013. Does that mean it’s gone? Hardly. Their saga became more serious when the FDA sent it a warning letter that was predicted by this

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Interview with Dr. Charles Cox on New Stem Cell Trial for Cerebral Palsy

December 16, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Dr. Charles Cox at the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center at Houston is starting a new stem cell-based clinical trial for the treatment of young children with cerebral palsy (CP). There is an urgent need for the development of new treatments for CP. You can learn more about the details of this specific

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TGIF: Friday the 13th Stem Cell Joke Contest

December 13, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

I’m in the mood for something lighthearted and funny as sometimes humor is the best medicine so I’ve got a stem cell joke contest for you. The winner gets a signed copy of my book or a huge thing of cookies, your choice. The rules? Simple. The joke starts roughly as follows “Three stem cells

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Heading to 2013 World Stem Cell Summit

December 3, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

I’m flying out to San Diego today for the World Stem Cell Summit. I’ve been attending this great meeting every year lately and I always return home feeling more informed and energized. Here’s this year’s agenda. At the meeting, I will be doing a book signing tomorrow, Wednesday December 4th, from noon-2pm near the WSCS

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Law and Order SVF: what is stromal vascular fraction?

December 2, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

A big, fat elephant in “the room” of the commercial stem cell field today is something called stromal vascular fraction or SVF, made from human fat tissue or adipose. If you care at all about stem cells or the stem cell field more generally, you had better educate yourself on SVF. You can learn a

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Has anti-aging finally come of age with Google’s Calico?

November 29, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Can Google’s new anti-aging company, Calico, have you Googling at age 140? Don’t sell your burial plot just yet. The idea of anti-aging has been around for a very long time and efforts to combat aging have spanned millennia largely without any success so Calico (apparently short for California Life Company, which sounds more like

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23andMe and the FDA: Perspectives on Warning Letter

November 27, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

What’s the deal with this week’s FDA Warning Letter to 23andMe? First some background. I’m a researcher who studies stem and cancer cell genomics and epigenomics. I’m also a human being who has battled prostate cancer and is curious about my genome. With this background, I decided some time ago to take the plunge and experience what

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Guest Post on the Future of Stem Cells: World Alliance Forum Meeting

November 17, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

The World Alliance Forum held a really great meeting yesterday in SF about the future of stem cells. Below, Johnathon Anderson has a great guest post summarizing the meeting. The collective brain power in the room was pretty staggering. The meeting brought together stem cell leaders from academia, industry, startup incubators and funding agencies. The purpose

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Puzzling Institute of Medicine stem cell workshop

November 13, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

On November 18 in Washington, D.C. the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences will hold a workshop on stem cell therapies. The meeting (agenda here) is also co-sponsored by ISSCR. I have some major concerns about this meeting. In principle and in a general sense, I believe this is the kind of meeting and

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