Lill space-time-blot anomaly in Marburg
The biochemistry research lab of professor Roland Lill at the Philipps University Marburg in Germany is a place where space,Continue Reading
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
Salk Gandalf Tony Hunter gets AACR prize for magic western blots
Gandalf the Wizard has been awarded €75k in cash and Pezcoller-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research, forContinue Reading
Martin Birchall’s two dead pigs to prove trachea transplants are safe
Imagine you are Martin Birchall, laryngologist and ENT surgeon, star of regenerative medicine at UCL and trachea transplant enthusiast. You and your business partner Videregen need to explain to EU bureaucrats why your technology of decellurised cadaveric trachea is perfectly safe, what with all the dead patients of yours and your former best friend Paolo Macchiarini. Yet both your trachea transplant pigs die. EU authorities however accept this as proof that your method is safe!
University of Iceland: no formal legal sanctions against Macchiarini partner Gudbjartsson
The University of Iceland in Reykjavik previously published an external investigation report into the first ever plastic trachea transplant, performedContinue Reading
Princess Sabine, her Ombudsman chaperone and a frog
If you wish to report data irregularities, especially a recurrent pattern thereof, one is well adviced not to write toContinue Reading
EU trachea transplant clinical trial TETRA terminated
The European Commission admitted that their €6.8 mn phase 2 clinical trial TETRA with cadaveric tracheas, led by the UCL laryngologist Martin Birchall is unlikely to ever recruit any patients. In January 2019, the status was changed to “grant agreement terminated”
Los secretos de Macchiarini en Barcelona
English version below. El 12 de junio de 2008, el cirujano torácico y entusiasta de la medicina regenerativa Paolo MacchiariniContinue Reading
Sumitran-Holgersson and Olausson to retract 8 papers for research misconduct
Bad news for regenerative medicine enthusiasts, the data manipulating biologist Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson and her surgeon partner Michael Olausson, both professors atContinue Reading
Jessus investigator identity leaked, CNRS President to expose whistleblowers
An update to the ongoing cartoon Stalinism propaganda and purge activities at the EU largest research institution, the French CNRS,Continue Reading
Expert witness Macchiarini to help Berlin court sentence criminal journalist
The stem cell pioneering surgeon Paolo Macchiarini is back in court now. No, he is not the accused this time.Continue Reading
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