The Island of Dr Izpisua Belmonte
Human-monkey chimeras arrive to solve the problem of organ shortage. Thank Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, who is ready to cure all possible diseases and even the old age. With chutzpah and Cell on his side.
Tag: stem cells
Alysson Muotri, a minibrain
Autistic Neanderthal minibrains operating crab robots via brain waves of newborn babies are to be launched into outer space for the purpose of interstellar colonization. No, I am not insane. Science Has Spoken.
Paolo Macchiarini indicted for aggravated assault in Sweden
Swedish prosecutor opened a criminal indictment against Paolo Macchiarini. The scandal surgeon will have to stand court trial for all 3 deadly plastic trachea transplants he performed at Karolinska.
Münster charges Jens Schwamborn’s mentor Andreas Püschel with research misconduct, again
The University of Münster in Germany shows with a good example how to act on evidence of data manipulation. Neuroscientist Andreas Püschel has been found guilty of research misconduct. It was once again about a paper authored by his former PhD student and now Luxembourg stem cell researcher, Jens Schwamborn.
Mr ACE2 Josef Penninger, Greatest Scientist of Our Time
As a young Wunderkind, Josef Penninger discovered the ACE2 receptor. Now he invented the cure for the coronavirus which will work in his hands where Big Pharma failed. He was never found guilty of research misconduct and never retracted a paper. Dr Penninger is a Genius making a COVID-19 vaccine.
Losing research ethics and mental health in Daley lab
A former Harvard postdoc from the lab of George Q Daley tells his story.
Stem cells to cure COVID-19 because why not
Israeli scientists discovered a cure for coronavirus! Their proprietary PLX cells from placenta deliver 100% survival rate both against COVID-19 and a nuclear holocaust. The stocks soar.
Murray vs Celixir: MHRA to sell British public for medical experiments?
In this 3rd instalment of her Celixir investigation, Patricia Murray learns whose side the British authority MHRA is on. Not the patients’, and certainly not on the side of facts.
Deliferate misteaks by Tradional Chinese Medicine
Smut Clyde studies two Chinese research groups to understand how TCM can be used to create modern Photoshop art.
Catherine Verfaillie, the Zombie Scientist of KU Leuven
Catherine Verfaillie is a zombie scientist: her past stem cell research long discredited, but she still is an influential and very well funded star of Belgian science. Now Elisabeth Bik had a fresh new look at Verfaillie’s papers
