Macchiarini victim’s family sues trachea makers for wrongful death
Yesim Cetir was a young woman from Turkey, whose vulnerability the scandal surgeon used to test his plastic trachea (twice),Continue Reading
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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!
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
Trachea transplanters: Round 2 at UK Parliament
The Science and Technology Committee of the British House of Commons is now dealing with the trachea transplants performed byContinue Reading
UCL fibs Parliament about trachea transplants
The esteemed London university UCL seems to live in its own world. There, the regenerative medicine magic thrives, living organsContinue Reading
Image reuse, the new low of UCL trachea transplanter Martin Birchall?
With his three trachea transplant clinical trials suspended, the British laryngologist and UCL professor Martin Birchall now tries to pull at leastContinue Reading
Karl Lenhard Rudolph barred from DFG funding for 2 years, as supportive peers flock to his conference
More bad news for Karl Lenhard Rudolph: misconduct findings and 2 year funding ban from DFG. Good news: the international scientific community stands to him in solidarity, no retractions, even some corrections won’t be implemented.
Tissue-engineered tracheas: an assessment of the scientific, clinical and ethical implications
Here I republish the written evidence submitted to by two UK scientists to the Science and Technology Committee of the BritishContinue Reading
Martin Birchall’s shaky road to mass trachea transplanting
The British laryngologist and UCL professor Martin Birchall is one of the two founding fathers of “bioengineered” trachea, the other one beingContinue Reading
How trachea transplanters tricked Andemariam Beyene to sacrifice himself for a Lancet paper
This article reports the results of an investigation performed in Iceland by the Landspítali University Hospital, concerning the scandal surgeonContinue Reading
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