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A clever idea to try to use AI to make cellular machines has produced something being called xenobots. However, the research is getting overblown in some ways. What does this have to do with Zambonis? Read on. What are xenobots? A xenobot is supposed to be a cellular robot made from frog stem cells. The robot part […]

Fact-check: F grade for irresponsible stem cell COVID-19 cure piece

February 10, 2021 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

At times there’s been seriously bad journalism covering COVID-19 itself including implications of various things being a COVID cure. Of course, media coverage of stem cell research itself sometimes ends up being a train-wreck of hype too. More recently we’ve seen irresponsible journalism also around the specific idea of stem cells for COVID-19, but sometimes

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Fact-check: F grade for irresponsible stem cell COVID-19 cure piece

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