Patients Beware: Commercialized Stem Cell Treatments on the Web

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Cell Stem Cell, Volume 7, Issue 1, 43-49, 17 June 2010

doi:10.1016/j.stem.2010.06.001

ISSCR: Report

Patients Beware: Commercialized Stem Cell Treatments on the Web
Patrick L. Taylor1, Roger A. Barker2, Karl G. Blume3, Elena Cattaneo4, Alan Colman5, Hongkui Deng6, Harold Edgar7, Ira J. Fox8, Claude Gerstle9, Lawrence S.B. Goldstein10, Katherine A. High11, Andrew Lyall12, Robertson Parkman13, Fernando J. Pitossi14, Ernest D. Prentice15, Heather M. Rooke16, , , Douglas A. Sipp17, Alok Srivastava18, Susan Stayn19, Gary K. Steinberg19, Amy J. Wagers20 and Irving L. Weissman19

1 Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
2 Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 2PY, UK
3 Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
4 Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano I-20133, Italy
5 A∗STAR Singapore Stem Cell Consortium, Singapore 138648, Singapore
6 Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
7 Columbia Law School, New York, NY 10027, USA
8 McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, USA
9 Delray Beach, FL 33446, USA
10 University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
11 The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
12 Stem Cell Network, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada
13 Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
14 Fundación Instituto Leloir-IIBBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires 1405, Argentina
15 University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA
16 International Society for Stem Cell Research, Boston, MA 02115, USA
17 RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0047, Japan
18 Christian Medical College, Vellore 632004, India
19 Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
20 Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA

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Summary

A report by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)'s Task Force on Unproven Stem Cell Treatments outlines development of resources for patients, their families, and physicians seeking information on stem cell treatments.


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