by rss feed | May 20, 2021 | cord blood, cord blood autism, Cryo-cell, Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, Duke autism, News Feeds, Publishing, Stem Cells Translational Medicine
The journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine has a long track record of publishing great work. I also have a lot of respect for the editors there and I’ve published there myself. But a few recent events have sparked concerns including over possible undisclosed...
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 | Nov 22, 2020 | cancer, cancer stem cells, cell biology, cellular mechanics, childhood glioma, COVID-19 cell therapy, Duke autism, Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), Mesoblast, News Feeds, Remestemcel-l, remestemcel-L COVID-19, Stem cells for COVID-19, Weekend Reads
The COVID-19 pandemic is tearing through the country right as we are starting into the holiday season, but the wheels of science including cell biology keep going and we keep reading all the great work. What news or papers caught your eye? Here are some of the things...
by rss feed | Nov 22, 2020 | cancer, cancer stem cells, cell biology, cellular mechanics, childhood glioma, COVID-19 cell therapy, Duke autism, Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), Mesoblast, News Feeds, Remestemcel-l, remestemcel-L COVID-19, Stem cells for COVID-19, Weekend Reads
The COVID-19 pandemic is tearing through the country right as we are starting into the holiday season, but the wheels of science including cell biology keep going and we keep reading all the great work. What news or papers caught your eye? Here are some of the things...
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...
