Saturday, October 10, 2009

Stem Cell Tourism Revisited

We received an email from Jane Qiu today about her recently published article in the September 2009 issue of Nature Biotechnology. Jane had interviewed Richard in 2007 about his stem cell therapy experience in China which resulted in an article published by the Lancet Neurology in February 2008.

The Nature Biotechnology article which is entitled "Trading on Hope" is a followup to her investigation of "the thriving business of selling stem cell transplants as cure-alls for debilitating diseases." Jane has graciously made available a copy of her article to us.

Please click on the link, TradingonhopeNatureBiotech9-09.pdf, here.

Furthermore, Jonathan Kimmelman, who holds a PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University and is currently with the Biomedical Ethics Unit Faculty at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada, commented on Jane's article in his blog (Lost in Translation) post of September 23, 2009.