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Did Clone-Like Nature & Science Pieces Boost Hwang Redemption PR Effort?

January 16, 2014 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

There was a Twitter buzz yesterday about a Science news story on Korean cloning fraud Woo Suk Hwang’s efforts for redemption in the scientific community. What was the big deal? It turns out to be a peculiar situation. The Science Hwang piece by Dennis Normile, entitled “After Fraud, Korean Cloner Seeks Redemption”, was eerily similar in […]

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TGIF: Craziest stem cell stories of the week

November 8, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

I have to admit a small fascination for tabloid, wildly over the top stories about stem cells. Maybe it’s just that I need a good laugh to escape the black hole of academia at times even if only momentarily? Of course some crazy stem cell stories reflect actually dangerous situations for patients, but that doesn’t

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Doc grows new nose on top of head

September 29, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

How could there be a nose on top of head? We all have heard the expression “eyes on the back of one’s head”, but a nose on top of one’s head? What the heck? A Chinese doctor has apparently grown a new nose on top of a patient’s forehead. The patient had his nose damaged

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Maps of global stem cell clinical trial trends

September 26, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 9 Comments

Late in 2012 I did a piece on the global trends in stem cell clinical trial patterns. It is time for an update. Another look at stem cell clinical trials now (late Sept. 2013) based on the clinicaltrials.gov database shows an encouraging trend. Total Stem Cell Clinical Trials The total number of stem cell clinical

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Jeanne Loring’s Thoughts on Jamie Thomson ISSCR Talk

June 12, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

Guest post on talk by Jamie Thomson. By Jeanne Loring. On Wednesday afternoon at the ISSCR meeting in Boston, Jamie Thomson gave a talk about the history of human pluripotent stem cells. There were probably only a dozen people in the audience of around 3,000 who were working on human ES cells around the same

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Interview with Gary Rabin of Advanced Cell Technology (ACT)

May 1, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 9 Comments

One of the more exciting stem cell biotechs out there today is Advanced Cell Technology (ACT). At this time ACT has the only two ES cell-based FDA-approved clinical trials ongoing and so far they have looked quite promising in terms of preliminary safety data. However, ACT has much more in the pipeline including potentially iPS

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Want to get human stem cells intended for clinical use legally across the border? It ain’t gonna be easy

February 4, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

A big issue in the stem cell field is that firms increasingly are doing business in multiple countries. Associated with the increasingly international nature of the stem cell for-profit industry are emerging legal and ethical issues related to the transport of stem cell-based biological drugs across international borders. Think you can just FedEx human stem

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2012 stem cell meetings and conferences

January 3, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

2012 Brazilian Congress on Stem Cells & Cell Therapy, Sao Paulo, Oct 3-6 NYSCF Seventh Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference, New York City  Oct. 10 – 11 Epigenetics and Stem Cells 2012, Cambridge, UK  Oct. 16 – 17, 2012 Texas Cures/ Texans for Stem Cell Research Education Mtg, Austin, Oct. 19 ISSCR-Roddenberry Symposium, Gladstone (San Fran), Oct. 24-25 Houston

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More new trouble for RNL Bio: Korea reportedly weighs criminal charges over stem cell treatments

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

RNL Bio has been accused of allegedly smuggling stem cells out of Korea to treat patients in Japan and China without going through customs. But there is more trouble. RNL Bio faces additional challenges as reportedly (AsiaOne News) the Korean Government is weighing whether to charge RNL criminally based on their stem cell treatments being illegal

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RNL Bio charges for alleged stem cell smuggling raise larger questions

January 3, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

RNL Bio had a challenging year in 2012 in my opinion. It was sued in U.S. court for stem cell fraud by Korean national patients living in the U.S. It had a legal tussle, still ongoing, with former partner Celltex over custody of Celltex’s banked patient stem cells. Well, it seems to me that 2013

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