Utah’s new stem cell law undermines FDA’s authority
The state of Utah has just enacted a law permitting patients to receive medical treatments using placental stem cells without formal approval by the United States' federal regulatory...
Consumers should beware of stem cell treatments for Covid-19
A recent analysis has identified 38 companies offering so-called stem cell treatments and exosome treatments for preventing as well as treating COVID. These interventions are...
Chinese scientists grow humanized kidneys in pigs
Chinese scientists have successfully created chimeric embryos containing a combination of human and pig cells. When transferred into surrogate pig mothers, the developing humanized kidneys...
Henrietta Lacks family settles with biotech company over cell line profits
In a historic resolution that underscores the complex ethical questions surrounding medical research and profit, the family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells have fuelled ground-breaking...
Why are scientists boasting of creating ‘synthetic human embryos’?
A scientist working in Cambridge and California has just announced that she and her colleagues have made a ‘synthetic human embryo’. They took a human...
Stem cell huckster sent to jail for 202 years
A 71-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 202 years in jail for selling fake stem cell treatments in several states. Jimmy Lee Taylor was...
Regulating dodgy stem cell clinics: FDA is appealing against ruling
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided to appeal a surprising decision after it lost a case it was fighting against a California...
Did He Jiankui ‘Make People Better’? Documentary spurs a new look at the case of the first gene-edited babies
In the four years since an experiment by disgraced scientist He Jiankui resulted in the birth of the first babies with edited genes, numerous articles,...
California court creates regulatory uncertainty over the FDA regulation of stem cell therapies
In a recent lawsuit brought by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a California judge entered a judgment in favour of the California Stem Cell...
Fallen stem cell hero convicted in Swedish court
Once hailed as a stem cell technology pioneer, Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini has been convicted of causing bodily harm and given a suspended sentence in...
He did his time
He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysics researcher who became the first to genetically edit human embryos, has been released from jail after three years. He has...
Chinese scientists create parthenogenic mouse
Scientists affiliated with several institutions in China and one in the US have successfully created a fertile mouse derived from a single unfertilized egg. In...