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Liveyon made $21.6 million says DOJ; leader gets 3 years prison for stem cell activities

October 8, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Back in late August, Liveyon leader John Kosolcharoen pleaded to federal charges on stem cells. What was Liveyon? Liveyon was a splashy umbilical cord stem cell supplier company. I don’t know if the company is still active now. One of its core products ended up sending dozens of people to the hospital due to contamination […]

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Feds want $3M, prison for Liveyon founder in old fraud case

March 2, 2022 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

Before starting the umbilical cord cell supplier and marketing firm Liveyon, John Kosolcharoen was involved in some alleged health care fraud. The feds brought a case against him related to prescription drugs. Older case coming to a head As Liveyon was having its misadventures in the stem cell clinic sphere, the status of that past

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Liveyon product hurt many more patients says new CDC study

October 26, 2021 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Liveyon is a cord blood product marketer that distributed a batch of cells a couple of years back that led to many patients being hospitalized with infections. Some had sepsis and ended up in the ICU. It was thought at the time that about a dozen patients who had been injected with the Liveyon product

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Liveyon is back (again) with unproven exosome product

March 12, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 11 Comments

Remember our old friends Liveyon? Their leader John Kosolcharoen? Liveyon’s continuing metamorphosis This biologics supply firm has gone through several stages of corporate metamorphosis as a supplier of biologics including at first a purported living umbilical cord stem cell product. That stem cell thrust ultimately landed a dozen or more people in the hospital as

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Mystery of wild sci-fi film ad for unproven exosomes: Liveyon?

January 15, 2020 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

What’s Liveyon up to these days? A new, somewhat mysterious short film that serves as an advertisement for unproven exosomes has some of us scratching our heads. It seems to point to Liveyon. Can you guys as readers of The Niche help solve the puzzle of who’s behind this wild “cinematic commercial” and what the

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Why did clinic supplier Liveyon halt sales but others kept going despite FDA?

December 16, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Umbilical “stem cell” supplier Liveyon has suspended sales of its products according to the WaPo after a harsh FDA warning letter. While not fully shutting off the tap to the perinatal stem cell clinic universe, as other suppliers including in Utah seem to be continuing, this Liveyon voluntary hold will equal a major reduction in

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FDA spike: clinic supplier Liveyon warning letter & 483s; notice on exosome harms

December 9, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 13 Comments

Friday and Saturday showed a burst in FDA activity related to unproven stem cells and regenerative products including a warning letter to the unproven perinatal “stem cell” provider Liveyon. This was an unusual 48-hour period and a very good one for those who believe in science-based regenerative medicine but in my view a bad day

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Bad Batch podcast’s dark picture of perinatal stem cell industry

November 20, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

I finished listening to the first 6 episodes of the Bad Batch podcast last week. The series is by medical journalist Laura Beil. I think there will be a 7th episode that’s a Q&A. I highly recommend listening to the series even if parts are wrenching at times like how much patients and families have

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