by rss feed | Oct 5, 2023 | FDA Warning Letter, Neil Riordan, News Feeds, Office of Biological Products Operations, Panama stem cell
Neil Riordan may be most well-known for running the Panama stem cell clinic called simply enough the Stem Cell Institute, but he also has a U.S. firm Signature Biologics. The Panama clinic sells unproven umbilical cord cells grown in a lab for a host of medical...
by rss feed | Dec 2, 2021 | Autism, Neil Riordan, News Feeds, Stem Cells Translational Medicine
I’ve been concerned that the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine has been publishing some iffy papers from unproven stem cell clinics recently including from a Panama stem cell clinic called the Stem Cell Institute. Back in 2019, I took the unusual step of...
by rss feed | Sep 14, 2021 | Dr. Wade McKenna, Neil Riordan, News Feeds, The Stem Cell Institute
Those who follow the stem cell field might be familiar with stem cell clinic operator Neil Riordan. According to a recent press release and some news reports, Riordan just had some bad news in court related to a stem cell clinic in the U.S. Stem cell clinic lawsuit As...
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 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...
