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Celltex versus University of Minnesota: support for Elliott and Turner

March 12, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

Recently, there has been a brewing controversy surrounding a journal called American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), a company called CellTex, a bioethicist named Dr. Glenn McGee who founded and used to run AJOB until he recently resigned, and two University of Minnesota professors, Drs. Carl Elliott and Leigh Turner who have been publicly critical of […]

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What’s wrong with Romney?

March 7, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

What’s wrong with Romney? Romney is quoted today as saying it would take an “act of God” for him to lose the GOP nomination. A miracle, I guess? Perhaps, but I say that if he is the GOP nominee it would take a miracle for him to beat Obama. Last night Mitt Romney, the GOP

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Why is the human brain super-sized?

February 21, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

Why do people have such a big brain compared to other animals? Vertebrate embryonic development is a highly conserved process, particularly in the earliest phases. (note: you may find this September 2020 post on regulation of bee brain size to be interesting.) A wide variety of vertebrate animals including humans start out with embryonic body plans

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Why I am still blogging here on The Niche

February 20, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

I’ve now been blogging about stem cells here on The Niche for nearly 2 years, but why do I keep doing it? I’m by no means the only one who blogs about stem cells, but it is just that professors still are reluctant in the stem cell field to blog. Two outstanding blogs that tied

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Refuting the WSJ’s propaganda piece on Planned Parenthood

February 7, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

Does the Planned Parenthood icon at left send chills down your spine, because according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and most Republican Leaders, it should scare you greatly. An opinion piece today in the WSJ provides an extreme perspective on the debacle in which the Komen Foundation last week dropped support for Planned Parenthood,

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Witherspoon word cloud is surprisingly revealing

February 2, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

Remember that Witherspoon report on stem cells earlier this week that was supposed to be an authoritative look at embryonic stem cell research in its 100+ pages? I posted my own thoughts on it here including some criticisms but also some surprising areas of agreement between this blog and them, even though they cited this

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Why I finally bought stock in Advanced Cell Technology

January 23, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 10 Comments

Today after years of following the company Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), I finally bought stock (ACTC) in it. Why? As a stem cell researcher myself working on human ES cells, iPS cells, and many other types of stem cells, I have been following ACT for years, but have never pulled the trigger to buy their stock….until

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Ian Wilmut, Dolly’s dad, says dump hESC? What does this mean?

December 3, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

Sometimes a top scientist makes news with a quote on research and that happened with Ian Wilmut recently on stem cells. Move away from research on human ES cells (hESC) in favor of very new and still largely unclear trans-differentiation technology? I say, no way. But, Bradley Fikes of the North County Times has reported

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Who’s who in iPS cell field: update

November 29, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

Spring End Nov. 2011 Here is an updated–Who’s who in the iPS cell field?

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Is a fertilized egg a Californian? Personhood movement brings battle to California

November 22, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

Remember those folks who were pushing an amendment in Mississippi that would have defined the one cell fertilized egg as a full blown person with all the same rights as a living, breathing, thinking Mississippian? Now the new battlefront for their movement is California. They want to get an initiative on the ballot to make

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