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...
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...
Washington state sues ‘snake oil’ stem cell clinic
A Seattle based stem cell company, US Stemology, is being sued for deceptively marketing and selling stem cell therapies for a cure-all for dozens of...
Class action over unproven stem cell treatment settled for US$3.65 million
San Diego-based StemGenex, a now-bankrupt stem cell clinic, has to pay out US$3.65 million to its former patients for ineffective stem cell treatments. The complaint,...
Francis Collins reflects on 12 years of leading NIH
Francis Collins is stepping down as director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) after more than 12 years on the job. He was...
Shonky stem cell products explode in US
Disturbingly, there are now more than four times as many businesses in the United States offering untested stem cell treatments than there were five years...