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Patient’s Powerful Story on Multiple sclerosis and Getting Experimental Stem Cells

April 2, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 16 Comments

Multiple sclerosis (MS) can be an extremely debilitating disease that ultimately is fatal in some patients and reduces life expectancy and quality overall substantially. An MS patient named Caroline Wyatt, who works at the BBC, had the courage to open up in full detail on the BBC about having MS, her experience getting an experimental […]

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Weekend reads: ES cell research polls well, Gordie Howe, MS, IPS cells, and more

June 10, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Here are some headlines & articles worth a look and some thought on stem cell and biomedical science more generally. Gallup finds in a new poll that 60% of Americans surveyed find human embryonic stem celsl research “largely acceptable”. On the other hand human reproductive cloning is highly frowned upon, sandwiched in the “highly unacceptable

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Critically reading science papers: response to patient on MS stem cell literature

February 7, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 22 Comments

One of the most important elements of science is critical reading of papers. Most of us come into science as undergrads feeling somewhat naive about what we read in papers. Our default tendency is to believe most or all that we read as “true”. As we get more experienced, we realize that in fact if

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MS stem cells

Patient’s Powerful Story on Multiple sclerosis and Getting Experimental Stem Cells

Weekend reads: ES cell research polls well, Gordie Howe, MS, IPS cells, and more

Critically reading science papers: response to patient on MS stem cell literature

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