IT has been a bad couple of weeks for stem cells. Police in Hungary have arrested four people they suspect of running an illegal centre in Budapest for treatments using stem cells. The police said that the treatments were unproven, used stem cells taken from embryos or aborted fetuses, and cost as much as $25,000 per person.
In the UK, researchers at Newcastle University who claimed last month to have made sperm from stem cells have agreed to reporting the breakthrough, admitting that the first couple of paragraphs had been plagiarised. However, the university said…
