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Stem cell therapy review of good news: UC Davis, Asterias, Cynata, Mesoblast, ViaCyte

August 27, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

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It’s a difficult, but very important road to conclusively prove that an investigational stem cell therapy is both safe and effective in order to get final approval FDA or equivalents in other countries. For this reason, it is beneficial to highlight even small, but positive steps forward including encouraging pre-clinical data. Today I’m doing a […]

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Stem cells Sunday brunch of good news, fun links, & cool papers

May 21, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Enjoy! A Sunday brunch for the brain of science news, helpful links, and notable new papers including on stem cells. News and links CBER Director Focuses on Flexibility to Advance Regenerative Medicines Lab-Grown Blood Stem Cells Produced at Last Transplanted stem cells become eggs in sterile mice Maryland fund awards $8.5 million for stem cell research Positively good news from Asterias

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Stem cell good news as Asterias SCI trial to expand with strong safety data

September 2, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 9 Comments

The stem cell clinic trial being run by Asterias Biotherapeutics for spinal cord injury (SCI) reported (via CIRM) some preliminary very good news as it is so far seems safe and will be expanded to involve more patients. In the next phase, reportedly “Asterias is now looking to enroll 5-8 patients for this 20 million

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Stem cell good news: CIRM funds new cutting edge studies

July 23, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

CIRM announced recently the funding of a number of exciting new studies. ViaCyte received additional funding to support its development of its hESC-based pancreatic progenitor cell product PEC-Direct clinic trials. This work is very promising. CIRM also funded additional diabetes-related research by Humacyte on engineering blood vessels for use in dialysis, which is very creative. I

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List of 11 stem cell good news or interesting stories

July 8, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

Need a fix of some stem cell good news? I do. It has been a bumpy 2016 so far for the stem cell field and many challenges have popped up. So today at lunch and needing at least a short break from grant writing, I went looking for stem cell good news including interesting studies, promising

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Stem cell good news to start 2016

January 23, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

The stem cell arena is a complicated universe with a whole range of things going on at any one time and there’s usually ample negative things, but not all is bad news. It’s interesting to regularly look specifically at the good stem cell news out there. Below is a look at some top pieces of

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Stem cell good news briefs: TiGenix, Asterias, CIRM, Awards, & More

September 1, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

There’s a growing stream of stem cell good news of late. Stem cell biotech, TiGenix, reported encouraging Phase 3 allogeneic results on stem cells. A big milestone. I can’t wait to see the actual data. Its product, Cx601, has so far been safe and effective for perianal fistulas in Crohn’s disease. See more from Alexey on this. CIRM has funded the largest

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6 recent stem cell good news stories including on liver disease

August 7, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Ready for some stem cell good news? It can be difficult at times in a cutting edge field like stem cells in terms of keeping upbeat about hopes of rapid translation to help patients with real, proven therapies. It takes a long time, money, dedication, and even a bit of luck for the researchers and

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What are important, recent stem cell good news stories?

May 16, 2014 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

Sometimes there is so much craziness and outright bad stuff going on out there around the world related to stem cells that we can lose sight of all the good news and encouraging developments as well. I think the new paper (Chen, et al.) from a team led by Drs. Lane and Loring is good news.

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After nightmare stem cell week, some good news?

April 13, 2014 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

We in the stem cell field should call this past week: A Nightmare on Stem Street. I can’t think of many weeks that have been worse for the stem cell field than this past one. I’m a new week is starting soon. It was a real nightmare, although I wish it was just something fictional

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