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
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Appeal to Italian Parliament for an investigation into trachea transplants in Florence by Paolo Macchiarini
This is an Open Letter I sent today by email to the Italian Senate and its Health Committee, appealing forContinue Reading
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
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
After misconduct investigation, Irina Stancheva left Edinburgh, in secret
A scientist was “dismissed” by the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK. It was the cell biologist Irina Stancheva who specialises on the epigenetics and regulatory methylation of DNA. Her institutional website was deleted just hours after I sent my email inquiries to her former faculty colleagues.
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
Karolinska embarrasses itself to save two professors
The Swedish Karolinska Institutet (KI) is going through turbulent times. The Paolo Macchiarini scandal sensitised the European elite biomedical research centreContinue Reading
Human Brain Project and other Flagships: is EU outsourcing funding decisions?
The EU €1-Billion-Flagship Human Brain Project (HBP) started in 2013 as an closed enterprise run by three men. The triumvirate is noContinue Reading
Paul-Ehrlich Institute admits to have approved Walles tracheal transplant over phone, without questions
The German trachea transplanters Heike and Thorsten Walles treated the 3 patients with their pig-intestine-based tracheal transplants (one of them performed withContinue Reading
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