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Northwestern abruptly ending Burt HSCT autoimmune trials

August 29, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 55 Comments

“HSCT Chicago Clinic Closing!” is the startling header in all caps on a patient-run Facebook page about a stem cell therapy clinical trial program at Northwestern University. What’s going on? Unfortunately, the promising field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases seems to have suffered an unexpected setback […]

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Our dragon book gets a flaming thumbs up in Nature review

August 25, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

When you write a book like our new dragon book, as the first reviews of it start coming in you just never know what they’ll be like. When the person or outlet doing the review has a huge audience, the stakes are higher. How have the early reviews been for our new How to Build

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7-Year Glitch? Updates on my overly optimistic 2013 stem cell predictions for 2020

August 4, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Back in 2013, a half dozen years ago, I went out on a limb and made predictions for the stem cell field for 2020. These are different than my yearly predictions for the coming year (for instance, you can see my predictions made in 2018 for this year of 2019 here). As to my 2013

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A new way patients may get money back from stem cell clinics

July 23, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 21 Comments

Let’s face it, there are loads of stem cell clinics looking for patients/customers. I think most are taking advantage of patients and some of these are just rotten. Admittedly there are hundreds of clinics that aren’t that bad. They also might be FDA compliant. However, they still are selling stem cells that aren’t really proven

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Loring on how documentary tied to stem cell clinics began to unravel

June 23, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

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By Jeanne Loring There has been news over the last few days about stem cell researchers pulling out from a documentary called “The Healthcare Revolution”. First to report on June 15 was Erin Allday of the San Francisco Chronicle, followed by David Jensen’s California Stem Cell Report blog, Michael Hiltzik of the LA Times, and

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Muddy waters: stem cell clinic calls itself CIRM & docuseries sparks controversy

June 16, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

We’re seeing more muddy waters in the stem cell universe. A chiropractic stem cell and alternative medicine clinic has popped up calling itself, of all things, CIRM. On another front, an already controversial docuseries set to air tomorrow combines interviews with prominent academic stem cell scientists and unproven stem cell clinic folks, muddying the waters.

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KING 5 TV pulls odd Swedish Medical regen med infomercial off YouTube

April 2, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

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Some unproven stem cell clinics just make things up, but when a big medical organization like Seattle’s largest nonprofit health firm, Swedish Medical Group, has a marketing segment on TV with what in my view are odd and inaccurate claims related to regenerative medicine, the negative impact could be far greater. The segment in question

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‘So you don’t get eyeball in your hand’: Swedish Medical Center ‘infomercial’

February 4, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 16 Comments

Swedish Medical Center in Seattle is now marketing regenerative medicine therapies including some things that in my view are not really scientifically proven to work including via an infomercial. This is part of a bigger trend where more legit medical centers have begun selling regenerative medicine “treatments” that are still being developed. Sometimes they even

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20 stem cell & regenerative medicine predictions for 2019

January 2, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

For a long time at the end of each year, I’ve been making stem cell predictions for the coming year. Most often I’ve been making a “top 20” list of predictions and today’s post has my list for 2019. You can see how I did for 2018 here, which might have been my best year

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Context for my Nature piece on redefining “gene edit” to be more precise

December 19, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

When I say “gene edit” or “genome editing”, what’s the first thing that pops in your mind? It will depend on who you are. For many lay people until a few weeks ago when the world heard about He Jiankui‘s claim of CRISPR’d babies they may not have had anything pop in their heads when

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