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Red flags on stem cells sold for vaginal rejuvenation

December 1, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

What should we consider when seeing marketing for sexual enhancements like vaginal rejuvenation? Fact checking vaginal rejuvenation with stem cells When you read marketing terms like “stem cell treatment for sexual enhancement” or more specifically stem cells for “vaginal rejuvenation” what comes to mind? And are stem cell treatments a viable option for vaginal rejuvenation

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Weekly pubs & 2 stem cell clinics get bad news

November 29, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

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Even in COVID times the FDA continues its stepped-up efforts against stem cell clinics and patients are suing clinics more too, which I cover in today’s post along with recommended stem cell research pubs. One of the papers at the top of my to-read list is on 3D chromatin in stem cells. FDA Warning Letter

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Stem cell blogging dilemmas: patient disclosures, lawsuits, & more

November 11, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

After all this time writing on The Niche here since 2010, I still haven’t entirely resolved certain blogging dilemmas including when a patient discloses something. It’s kind of a jungle out there on the internet. What kinds of tough blogging dilemmas do I face? I’m just going to give you some examples of the more common

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Can a Heart Repair Itself Via Stem Cells

November 5, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

Can a heart repair itself via their own stem cells and do hearts have meaningful populations of stem cells? Science evolves Sometimes what we scientists all know to be true turns out later on to be wrong and there are clear instances of this in the stem cell field. For example for decades the dogma was

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Stem cell reads: liver buds, MSCs, SMARC, more

November 1, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

It’s fitting, given the edginess over the election, that Halloween is falling only a few days before election day so here is a list of recommended stem cell reads for you to dive into some biomedical science. Liver buds from stem cells Generation of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived liver buds with chemically defined and

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More Duke Autism Center backstory: stem cell ‘magic’ & money

October 29, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

Last week I wrote a long post detailing the troubling multimillion-dollar reverberations between the Duke Autism Center and a for-profit stem cell clinic. The clinic in Panama is The Stem Cell Institute. The potential entanglements raise a bunch of questions and concerns. They center on questionable, unproven autism “treatments”. In Duke’s case, their own clinical

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Weekly science reads: CRISPR, stem cells, cell size & space, more

October 25, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

Maybe we can use science as an escape from politics during the last week or so before the election? I hope so. Here are my weekly recommended reads. Several papers ended up relating to nucleus, cell and embryo size and space as well as chromatin, which is very interesting. Cell and chromatin biology pubs, media

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Trump, GOP hypocrisy on Regeneron COVID-19 fetal, stem cell work

October 9, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 9 Comments

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Are Trump and the Republican Party showing major hypocrisy over Trump’s use of experimental COVID-19 therapies in part developed by Regeneron using embryonic and fetal cells? The Internet is kind of blowing up over this. Trump’s collision with stem cells For example, people are directly confronting Trump on Twitter over his recent all caps tweet

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