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Interview with transhumanism leader Maria Konovalenko

July 6, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 21 Comments

The transhumanism movement has been garnering attention lately for a variety of views including embracing aspects of heritable human genetic modification. Earlier this year I interviewed geneticist and transhumanist, George Church. In this post I interview molecular biophysicist and transhumanist Maria Konovalenko. She is the program coordinator at the Science for Life Extension Foundation. In […]

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Monday morning musings: stocks, ISSCR, grants, CRISPR, New Book

June 29, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

What’s on your mind on this Monday morning and are you caffeinated enough yet? Depending on where you live it may even be time for dinner, bed, or already early Tuesday. Here are some Monday musings… To get safe and effective stem cell treatments to patients in a responsible, compliant manner you need commercial efforts

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Insider Trends on Stem Cells to Look Out for at ISSCR 2015 Stockholm

June 24, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

The annual ISSCR meeting has started in Stockholm. This is always a great annual meeting both for the science and for connecting with people including new friends and colleagues as well as old friends. Another element to the meeting is the insider conversations in the halls, restaurants, and bars that tell a behind the scenes

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Muddier stem cell waters: Stemedica teams up with UCSD doc?

June 21, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

Stemedica announced it is teaming up with UC San Diego (UCSD) to do stem cell research. This fits with an increasing trend in the stem cell arena is the teaming up of clinical partners with very different backgrounds and priorities. For instance, academic institutions are more often working together with for-profit stem cell clinics. Another branch

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ISSCR 2015 Stockholm Contests $100 in Prizes

June 18, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

I wish I was going to be with all you who are attending the ISSCR Annual Meeting in Stockholm coming up in a week or so, but this year the schedule just doesn’t work. I’ll try to be there in spirit. For those of you attending, I do have something fun though and a chance

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In Bart Starr stem cell treatment for stroke, following Howe to Mexico?

June 17, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 9 Comments

NFL Hall of Fame player Bart Starr has reportedly turned to stem cells for hope after having a series of strokes in 2014. The Starr family made a statement that Bart, now 81 years old, was accepted into a clinical trial using stem cells. This seems similar to the stem cell path that the family

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Sally Temple on adult RPEs for vision impairment, IND, & more

June 17, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

At the recent RPI stem cell and bioengineering meeting, the Neural Stem Cell Institute’s Sally Temple talked about her group’s intriguing retinal pigmented epithelial cell (RPE) research. With the broad focus of attention in the world of RPEs mostly on those derived from either human ESC or IPSC, it was exciting to here about the

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute stem cell meeting report

June 16, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Last week I attended and spoke at a stem cell meeting at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). It was entitled, “Bioengineering and Stem Cell Research”. It was a great meeting with many interesting talks. Below I write about some of the talks and themes of the meeting. Still to come later this week I will do a second post entirely

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How much human genetic variability is there really?

June 1, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

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At a genetic level, just how much do each of us human beings vary from each other in our total genome sequence? The number I was taught in Genetics at some point was that the genomes of any two human beings are likely to be 99.9% identical. So only about 1 out of 1,000 bp

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