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Weekly reads: stembryos or human embryo models, new Macchiarini sentence

June 24, 2023 / By / Leave a Comment
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Researchers have been making stem cell-based embryo models for years now and a few folks have taken to calling these “stembryos.” Other names like gastruloids and blastoids are sometimes used too. “Embryo models” might be the simplest and best name. The embryo model research has advanced relatively quickly from very basic, not very organized structures …

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Right To Try law has a big loophole that’s an opening for bad actors

September 28, 2022 / By / 14 Comments
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There appears to be a big, risky loophole in the relatively new national Right To Try law. Some folks apparently anticipated this problem long ago, but I think most of us weren’t aware of it. Update: More specifically, some law and policy experts were writing about this and other potential loopholes in 2018. I recommend …

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60 Minutes Australia Pushes Unproven Stem Cells for Cerebral Palsy

March 15, 2022 / By / 5 Comments
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The 60 Minutes show here in the U.S. has done sobering segments over the years on risky, unproven stem cell clinics, but now there is a new episode of 60 Minutes Australia that is the polar opposite: it mostly made a mess of things with its fluffy coverage of the story of a wonderful little …

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Animated map video shows wildfire spread of US stem cell clinics lacking FDA approval

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
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There are now so many clinics selling non-FDA approved stem cell offerings across the U.S. that tens or hundreds of thousands of patients are at risk. How did we get here? What if we had a way of understanding how stem cell clinics spread across the U.S. in the first place? For example, an animated …

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Blogging today’s FDA stem cell meeting: Part 2 Clinics, Policy & Ethics

February 1, 2021 / By / 3 Comments
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The FDA is holding its first 2016 stem cell meeting today and you can read about some impressions of the morning session of this meeting here. In this post, I’m focusing on the afternoon session, which has been mostly on policy and ethics, including on stem cell clinics. Jonathan Kimmelman from McGill University got the afternoon going …

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Important Rasko team paper on global distribution of stem cell clinics

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
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Last week a team led by John Rasko of the University of Sydney published a very important stem cell clinic study also in Cell Stem Cell. Thus, there have now been two new reports on the state of the stem cell clinic industry both here in the U.S. and more globally. Leigh Turner and I published …

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