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
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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
Swedish Central Ethics Review Board finds Macchiarini guilty of misconduct, requests retraction of 6 papers
Breaking news, Central Ethics Review Board (CEPN) decided today on the case of trachea transplant surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. The expertContinue Reading
Swedish police investigation acquitted Macchiarini on advice of misconduct-tainted trachea transplanters
On October 12th 2017, the Swedish prosecutor Jennie Nordin gave a long-awaited press conference about the case of the scandal surgeonContinue Reading
Alexander Seifalian, UCL’s Persian Scapegoat
UCL has completed the investigation into the affair around their past honorary professor Paolo Macchiarini and the trachea transplants. The report avoids implicating Macchiarini’s partner Martin Birchall. The only guilty party is the nuclear physicist Alexander Seifalian.
EU commemorates dead patients of Macchiarini & Birchall with a phase 2 trachea transplant trial TETRA
The European Commission now took 40 days to deny my second Freedom of Information (FOI) Inquiry about the TETRA phaseContinue Reading
The PubPeer Stars of Weizmann Institute
Rony Seger, Jacob Hanna, Ilana Kolodkin-Gal, Atan Gross, Sima Lev, Tsvee Lapidot, Moshe Oren, Varda Rotter and others. Let’s celebrate the Weizmann Science!
Unpublished Macchiarini manuscript confirms 5 forgotten trachea transplant patients
7.09.2017 This article was slapped with an injunction by Berlin court (here), on behalf of Jungebluth. Sentences forbidden by injunctionContinue Reading
German Leibniz institute director Karl Lenhard Rudolph guilty of misconduct
A major misconduct finding hits German life sciences. Karl Lenhard Rudolph, stem cell and ageing researcher, director of the Fritz-Lippmann-Institute (FLI)Continue Reading
