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‘Adventurous’ woman sought to carry Neanderthal baby: candidate for dumbest stem cell story of 2013 already pops up

January 22, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

The headline reads: ‘Adventurous’ woman sought to carry Neanderthal baby Supposedly Harvard Geneticist George Church, according to Der Spiegel magazine (and gazillions of other mainstream media outlets that translated the German piece including here), wants to clone a Neanderthal baby using an unholy combination of stem cell and genetics technologies. The only problem is that Church […]

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IOM misses the boat on CIRM board

January 18, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Recently, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) conducted a review of the California Stem Cell Agency, CIRM. IOM has now released a quite lengthy report that makes a number of recommendations on various issues. You can also read a short summary here. Unfortunately, I think that many of the IOM recommendations would be harmful to CIRM

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The model of a patient advocate: what are the key elements of success?

January 12, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

I deal with many patient advocates and that is one of my favorite parts of my job. They are wonderful! However some go above and beyond the call of duty and are model advocates in my opinion. Others do some great things, but also some negative things such as attacking the FDA publicly, which serves

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Stem Cell Person of the Year 2012: Roman Reed

January 9, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

The Knoepfler Lab 2012 Stem Cell Person of the Year is Roman Reed. Congratulations, Roman Reed! Roman made a tremendous difference in 2012 in many ways. One of the most notable was catalyzing the TJ Atchison Spinal Cord Injury Research Act in Alabama, which provides $400,000/year in funding for research. Of course, TJ and many

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Some thoughts on the Araki Nature iPS cell paper: an advance, but a few key caveats

January 9, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

I’ve already talked with science writer Ed Yong about the new Nature paper Araki, et al. (you can read Ed’s well-written piece here and you can another one on it by another one of my favorite writers, Monya Baker here), which suggests that iPS cells don’t trigger much in the way of an immune response. I

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Series on scientific & bioethics leaders discussing human reproductive cloning

January 7, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

In the coming weeks and months, I am going to run a series of posts (some interviews, some guest posts) on human reproductive cloning. This is the kind of cloning where you take a person (living or dead) such as, let’s say Lady GaGa or Jesus, and you try to make a duplicate new human

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Sherley v Sebelius: Will SCOTUS hear the case? What happens if it does?

January 6, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

The buzz topic in the stem cell field right now is whether the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) will take up the Sherley v Sebelius (S v S) case over the legality of federal funding of embryonic stem cell research in the U.S. The SCOTUS decision as to whether to hear the S v S should

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Nuggets and pyrite in Businessweek article on Celltex

January 4, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

Businessweek just published a very long, interesting article on Celltex by Susan Berfield yesterday. I was happy to talk with Susan at length about the key issues and be quoted in the article. See image at left of two key Celltex leaders, David Eller, CEO of Celltex, and Stan Jones above (Photograph by Thomas Prior

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Barbra Streisand: stem cell advocate

December 30, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

Yesterday I was visiting L.A. and happened by the Walk of Fame, seeing many stars including the one of Barbra Streisand (below). Streisand has been doing interviews (see article here ) for both TV and newspapers regarding her advocacy for heart disease research for women. Interestingly, this interest of Streisand’s directly involves stem cells according to

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Some holiday reflections on stem cells and people

December 24, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

I’m taking a short break from working on a grant progress report this morning (yes, it’s Christmas Eve) so I thought I’d do a post on the holidays. As the very exciting, complicated year of 2012 winds to a close and the holidays are here, I thought perhaps it is a time to put things

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