"a single intravenous infusion of autologous umbilical cord blood" and autism

' Could stem cells offer hope for autism? ' went one media headline referencing the very preliminary " phase I, open-label tria...

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Mesenchymal stem cell transplantation and a mouse model of autism

I once again tread carefully in this brief post talking about stem cells and autism on the back of what seems to be some growing research i...

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MOCOS: a new candidate for autism research

I'll freely admit that until reading the paper by François Féron and colleagues [1] (open-access available here ) I had never heard of ...

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Stem cell transplantation and autism: early days

My attention was recently caught by the publication of  the study by Yong-Tao Lv and colleagues * (open-access) reporting results based on t...

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The brain and the braincase, and much more, too

In our book The Mermaid's Tale, we make the point that, in thinking about how the diversity of life arose, people often place too much e...

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