by rss feed | Oct 25, 2024 | Cryo-cell, Duke autism, News Feeds, Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation
The Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Foundation recently announced that Cryo-Cell and its long-time partner, a Duke pediatric cell therapy team, have made a key change. They will begin offering infusions of unrelated, unproven cord blood to pediatric patients with...
by rss feed | Oct 17, 2024 | Cryo-cell, Duke, Duke autism, News Feeds
Cord blood banker Cryo-Cell and Duke have had a long-running agreement. The potentially multi-million dollar deal has focused on the development of possible umbilical cord blood therapies for pediatric patients. A major first goal has been to open an infusion clinic,...
by rss feed | Oct 12, 2021 | Autism, cord blood, Cryo-cell, Duke, Duke autism, News Feeds
When I first learned about the multi-$10 million cord cell clinic deal between Duke and Cryo-Cell I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Duke’s involved in this? The problem: marketing unproven cells for kids Yes, this wasn’t some stem cell clinic...
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 | 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...