by rss feed | Dec 10, 2023 | Casgevy, Lyfgenia, News Feeds, Paolo Macchiarini, Sickle Cell Disease, weekly reads
The big news broke Friday that the FDA approved two new gene therapies for sickle cell disease. While the approvals were expected and the actual use of these treatments will be complex on several levels, this is a historic development. 2 FDA-approved gene therapies...
by rss feed | Oct 29, 2023 | News Feeds, Paolo Macchiarini, weekly reads
Paolo Macchiarini is one of a small group of people in the stem cell universe whose misconduct has blown up in the press. Piero Anversa, Haruko Obokata, Hwang Woo-Suk, and some operators in the unproven stem cell clinic sphere come to mind. Macchiarini published quite...
by rss feed | Apr 9, 2023 | News Feeds, Paolo Macchiarini, weekly reads, woolly mammoth de extinction
Remember Paolo Macchiarini, the famous-turned-infamous so-called “stem cell surgeon” who ended up in legal trouble and with trial participants who died? Before we get into this we have a new feature for our weekly reads, which is the stem cell and...
by rss feed | Oct 4, 2020 | 3D chromatin, COVID-19, Ephron Rosenzweig, Genna Reed, Jacob Koffler, Karen Moxon, Kelly Servick, Mark Tuszynski, misconduct, Myc, News Feeds, Paolo Macchiarini, Paul Lu, science monopoly, Trump COVID, UC Davis, Weekend Reads
Here are some recommended stem cell and other reads for the week ranging from COVID developments to prosecutors finally catching up with a stem cell surgeon who had many patients die to a list of interesting pubs. Because Trump now has COVID, I wondered on Friday if...
