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Autologous or Allogeneic: a stem cell question (guest post from Jeanne Loring)

January 19, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 20 Comments

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By Jeanne Loring What can you do with cells that live forever and can make every cell type in the body? The answer is: remarkable things, as new reports of clinical trials using cell types derived from pluripotent stem cells indicate. Pluripotent stem cells are either derived from embryos donated from IVF procedures (human embryonic […]

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Red flag for Joint Commission for its gold seal approval to former stem cell clinic firm

January 9, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

The Joint Commission apparently has given some kind of seal of approval to the unproven stem cell clinic-related firm, the Lung Institute, or as it is now often called the Lung Health Institute. For me this raises concerns about the Joint Commission itself or at least its ambulatory care accreditation program through which Lung Health

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Good final grades on my 20 x 2018 stem cell predictions

December 26, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Each year I make a list of stem cell predictions for the following year and I’ll release my predictions for 2019 soon, but first I’m grading how my 20 predictions for 2018 turned out. It seems I did better than usual predicting what would happen this year. I only got a couple partial credit or

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Medical Board of California Task Force to Investigate Stem Cell Clinics

November 30, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

State involvement in reining in predatory stem cell clinics has never been more important, which is why it’s such good news that the Medical Board of California has a task force in the works to investigate such firms. According to a new NBC7 report (linked to above) focusing both on this news and on their own investigation

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Stem cell eye drops? Skepticism of American Academy of Stem Cell Physicians (AASCP)

November 11, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

What is the AASCP? I’ve been hearing more recently about something called the American Academy of Stem Cell Physicians (variously AAOSCP or AASCP). Its name has the sound of an organization like some traditional medical academy such as the American Academy of Internal Medicine, but my sense is that this is a totally different kind

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To report a sketchy stem cell clinic, a list of simple, concrete things to do

November 7, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

The stem cell clinic industry selling unapproved “therapies” is ubiquitous and yet somehow still growing it seems. Many of us are encountering more of them including via ads and the clinics are basically all over the place. What should someone do if they see a stem cell clinic that is particularly concerning? A lot of

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Stemgenex clinic mulled campaign against critic websites including CIRM per court docs

September 6, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

New court documents indicate that the stem cell clinic Stemgenex was contemplating paying nearly $20K to try to get certain webpages that were critical of the company taken down. The documents include internal company emails that are part of the lawsuit against the firm. They indicate that Stemgenex was mulling over the idea of hiring a “reputation management” company,

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Deconstructing Joe Rogan promotional stem cell video with Mel Gibson

July 26, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 96 Comments

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What do you get when celebrity podcaster Joe Rogan talks about stem cells? There can be big impact one way or another. I don’t believe his shows on stem cells have helped provide solid info. What do I mean? Patients can be strongly influenced by what they see on social media and YouTube videos pack

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Midterm grades on my 20 x 2018 stem cell predictions

June 27, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Every year in December I go out onto a limb and make stem cell predictions for the coming year as I did in late 2017 for this year. Then usually around the 1/2-way point through the year I check in on how the predictions are faring so far at that point. In this post I give

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A real FDA blacklist: what is it, who’s on it, & should some stem cell clinics be?

June 25, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

I didn’t know until recently that the FDA has a blacklist, which is called the “FDA Debarment List”. You can check it out here. Should one or more particularly egregious unproven stem cell clinic operators should be on the list given their risk-taking with patients in the name of profit? There aren’t any on there

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