Stem cell grapevine: FBI readying to take more action against dubious clinics & docs

A rumor is now going around that some dubious stem cell docs and clinics are likely to get visits from the FBI soon! The FDA, which has just recently issued a couple warning letters (here and here), potentially together with the FBI, may be poised to take more decisive action in the near future in the next

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Media is a hot mess over stem cell cosmetics & sports medicine

The Mainstream Media has cranked up its hyping of stem cell cosmetics and sports medicine just in the last week or so. It’s really disturbing. The message is unmistakable: stem cell-based sports medicine and cosmetics are cutting edge new medicines that because they work for the stars will also work for ordinary people too.  ….Or

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Reader recommended academic science blogs: these rock!

More great professor blogs! I’ll add more as they come in…. http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/ by Larry Moran 
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/ by Jerry Coyne 
http://bytesizebio.net/ by Iddo Friedberg http://genomeinformatician.blogspot.com/ by Ewan Birney http://oikosjournal.wordpress.com by Jeremy Fox http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~redfield/doing.html by Rosie Redfield

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Have we crossed the tipping point to stem cell disaster?

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Earlier this year, Dr “LookGood” aka Dr. Steven Victor, cosmetic surgeon to the stars, received a warning letter from the FDA over how his clinic was handling stem cell-related procedures. The FDA listed 16 issues as problems. On April 20, Dr. Thomas E. Young of Young Medical Spa in Pennsylvania also received an FDA warning

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