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Fact check: Lung Health Institute & cell therapies for lung disease

April 13, 2021 / By / 11 Comments
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What should we make of clinics like the Lung Health Institute? These clinics sell unproven stem cell or regenerative therapies for lung disease. Overall, I’m extremely skeptical. I don’t believe it’s worth the cost. There are also going to be potentially serious health risks. Lung disease is a broad category including COPD, emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, …

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‘I’d need a drink’: WaPo deep dive on clinic firm Lung Health Institute

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
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Washington Post reporters William Wan and Laurie McGinley have a new piece on the unproven regenerative clinic firm the Lung Health Institute. This article has a number of surprises and new insights. Previously the Lung Health Institute was called just the Lung Institute. It was recently acquired by the publicly-traded company H-CYTE, stock symbol HCYT. In the …

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Fallout of big court loss for stem cell clinic whose leader tweeted conspiracy claim

February 1, 2021 / By / 3 Comments
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As I broke the news yesterday, the high-profile fat stem cell clinic firm U.S. Stem Cell (USRM) just lost a groundbreaking court case. Here is the FDA’s official reaction today to the court ruling. Also, since the ruling major media have been covering the court ruling. Here are some examples: From the Washington Post from …

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Weekend reads: reversing death of pig brain cells, brain-gut stem cell link, plant stem cells, & more

February 1, 2021 / By / 2 Comments
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It’s been a cool week for stem cell and other associated kinds of research. In this post I have a series of links to a variety of interesting developments and papers. Gene therapy cures bubble boy infants. William Wan over at the WaPo on this good news. Nope, this wasn’t done with CRISPR, but rather …

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Weekend reads include herding brains, stem cells, & CRISPR

June 8, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment
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Every so often here on The Niche I list science and news articles worth a look as “weekend reads”. Below is my list for this weekend. Enjoy! The first article doesn’t really fit into the other main categories, but the title “herding brains” caught my eye. Stem Cells Stem cells and regenerative capacity in aging …

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New stem cell clinic insights from trio of critical media pieces

February 1, 2021 / By / 2 Comments
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Three recent media pieces on unproven, for-profit stem cell clinics paint an unflattering picture of this industry. At the intersection of these pieces is the clinic “treatment” consisting of fat stem cells (being manufactured as in a screenshot at right from a clinic YouTube video), a product the FDA has indicated is most often going …

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