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New England Journal of Med: most Americans support ES cell research

November 17, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

Today, an authoritative article was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that included some of the most comprehensive polling of attitudes in the U.S. and around the world on embryonic stem cell (ESC) or ES cell research. Their findings indicate very widespread and deep support for ESC research around the globe including in […]

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Perspectives on Geron ending stem cell program

November 16, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

Many of us have been discouraged by Geron decision to end their stem cell program, which included products based on human embryonic stem (ES) cells, but let’s keep some perspective on this and not give up hope. The opponents of hope want us to give up. They who have waged their own self-proclaimed war on

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The day after Geron news: a realistic outlook for the stem cell field

November 15, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

Yesterday Geron announced it would be immediately stopping its stem cell research program. What does this mean? While this program has (or should I say “had”) a number of elements, at its heart was of course its hESC-based OPC drug (GRNOPC1) for spinal cord injury, which was in an FDA-approved Phase I Clinical Trial that

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What are the goals of the Vatican stem cell meeting and why no press releases so far?

November 9, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Many of you may have heard that there is a Vatican stem cell meeting . Today the Vatican held the first day of its adult stem cell conference. Embryonic stem cells remained not surprisingly uninvited. This conference is an unprecedented event in the thousands of years of history of The Church so not surprisingly many

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Want to understand stem cells? Then you have to know Myc

November 6, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

What is Myc? Often when we dig a little into the science of stem cells, people get turned off by all the strange names of molecules and jargon. However, whether you are a scientist, patient, investor, reporter, etc. there are some aspects of stem cell science that are ‘musts’ to know about. For example, you

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More on The New Scientist and stem cells

October 25, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

As many of you know, I did a post this week on an article in The New Scientist that many readers had complained to me about. Their concerns and mine as well centered on two points. First, the article seemed at a factual level to be confusing and written in a People Magazine-esque style that

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More on the Vatican $1 million gamble on NeoStem and their upcoming conference in Rome

October 24, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

In mid-November the Catholic Church, in fact the Vatican itself, will do something it has never done before in its very long existence. It will hold a conference on stem cells. Perhaps equally unusual and of interest is the fact that the basis for this conference is a $1 million (USD) gamble by the Vatican

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The Vatican Stem Cell Meeting…is mixing religion and science a good idea?

October 23, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Why does it worry me that the Vatican is having a stem cell conference? One of the hallmarks of Democracy is separation of church and state. When states mix religion into politics and government, the results have during human history been disastrous. Equally dismal has been the relationship between religion and science. Ever since the

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The New Scientist goes after ES cells with strange opinion piece

October 22, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

What the heck happened to The New Scientist? An anti-embryonic stem cell piece they just recently published was an exercise in weird, moral obfuscation. Quite a few scientists and policy makers are fairly regular readers of The New Scientist. They might start reconsidering how they want to spend that $99/year. Why not use it to

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Anti-cure impact of Errant EU stem cell patent decision

October 18, 2011 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

There has been concern for months about the direction that the European Union was heading in regards to intellectual property (IP) rights and stem cell patent approaches. Now, a definitive decision banning embryonic stem cell (ESC)-based patents by the EU Court has dealt a severe blow to stem cell science in Europe. The European Court

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