What’s the difference between testing a typical small molecule drug, and testing a novel cell therapy strategy? And where might the latter raise ethical challenges that the former doesn’t? These questions are extensively discussed in my book, and given human drama in a recent story by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel in the Feb 12, 2010 issue of… Continue reading Transplanting Autoimmune Research
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Remembrance of Things Past: Fetal Tissue Transplantation and Parkinson’s Disease
In a recent article in Science magazine, Constance Holden reports that European researchers are contemplating a revival of fetal tissue transplantation for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. As the article recounts, fetal transplants were subjected to sham controlled studies in the late 1990s; none performed better than sham, and several caused disabling dyskinesias. So should… Continue reading Remembrance of Things Past: Fetal Tissue Transplantation and Parkinson’s Disease