by rss feed | Aug 19, 2021 | Cryo-cell, Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, Duke, Duke autism, Joanne Kurtzberg, News Feeds
I recently found concerning SEC filings from the biotech Cryo-Cell about a deal it has with a Duke team for infusions of children with unproven umbilical cord cells. This turns out to be a $58 million deal. It relates in a major way to a Duke compassionate use or...
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...