by rss feed | Jul 27, 2021 | Autism, Duke, Fact-check, News Feeds, Stem Cell Institute in Panama, Stem cell therapy for autism
The other day I gave a talk in part about stem cell hype and mentioned as an example how the idea of already doing stem cell therapy for autism seems so misguided to me now. On the whole, in my view there are major downsides and risks for autistic kids whose parents...
by rss feed | Feb 18, 2021 | Autism, Blog, cord blood, Duke autism, Neil Riordan, News Feeds, Panama stem cell, Stem Cell Institute, The Stem Cell Institute
Somehow time has flown by so that I’ve been around for ages in the stem cell universe and some unproven stem cell clinic type firms, like the well-known Panama stem cell clinic that sells autism “treatments”, are also long-timers. It’s been an...
by rss feed | Oct 29, 2020 | Autism, autism nutritional supplement, blüm, CM-AT, Curemark LLC, Curemark LLC autism, Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, Duke autism, Jeremy Snyder, Leigh Turner, Muddy waters, News Feeds, quackademic, Stem Cell Institute, The Study of a Biological Autism Medication
Last week I wrote a long post detailing the troubling multimillion-dollar reverberations between the Duke autism program and a for-profit stem cell clinic in Panama called The Stem Cell Institute. The potential entanglements between the Duke group and the Panama...
by rss feed | Oct 13, 2020 | Autism, Bernie Marcus, Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, Duke, Duke autism, Duke autism program, Duke umbilical cord blood, Marcus Foundation, Muddy waters, Neil Riordan, News Feeds, Northwestern Autoimmune, Northwestern HSCT, pay-for-play, STAP cells, stem cells for autism, The Stem Cell Institute
There is a puzzle when it comes to the controversial idea of using cord blood for autism, because two of the strongest proponents are the autism cord blood program at Duke and for-profit, unproven stem cell clinics. On first glance it seemed like this was a bit of an...
by rss feed | Jul 11, 2016 | Autism, News Feeds
The brains of some people with autism spectrum disorder grow faster than usual early on in life, often before diagnosis.
by rss feed | Apr 21, 2016 | Autism, News Feeds
Studies performed by a Sanford Research scientist using an innovative stem-cell model for a fatal developmental disorder is the focus of a recent study published in Nature Medicine.
