Medical Tourism

Ukraine clinic seems to backpedal from CRISPR people idea

April 30, 2021 April 30, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

medeus clinic doctors. their recruitment emails had suggest a goal to crispr people for trait enhancement.

I wrote earlier this week about Medeus clinic in Ukraine seemingly trying to recruit genetics researchers to CRISPR people for trait enhancement. Aiming for CRISPR people with trait enhancement? In the recruitment emails they sent out it seemed fairly clear that they were planning to do CRISPR on people somehow via stem cells. They mentioned …

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Stem cell tourism: from bad to worse from 2010-2011

July 10, 2011 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 17 Comments

At last year’s ISSCR 2010 Meeting in San Francisco, President Irv Weissman talked about the dangers of unvalidated stem cell treatments. He talked about the responsibility of stem cell scientists to stand against these and the importance for scientists not to endorse or serve on advisory committees of companies peddling such products and “therapies”. As …

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