Stem Cells from Adipose Tissue

It wouldn’t come as a surprise that clinics in foreign countries are offering fraudulent (or at least unproven, unregulated) stem cell therapies for many diseases, but it may be a surprise that 351 clinics in the US are making such offerings. Removing fat from a patient’s body and extracting stem cells, which then are implanted in the brain to treat Alzheimer’s might be compared to “The Rise and Fall of Laetrile” (SEE ) after enough time has passed between the science and the lawsuits. MORE

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