MEDICINE:
Monitoring and Regulating Offshore Stem Cell Clinics
Sorapop Kiatpongsan1,2,3 and Douglas Sipp4,5*
Unverified medical treatments based on stem cells are proliferating and need oversight.
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand 10330.
2Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology, Vincent Obstetrics and Gynecology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
3Science, Technology and Globalization Project/Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
4RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, 650-0047, Japan.
5Center for iPS Research and Application, Institute for Integrated Cell-Materials Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.
*Author for correspondence. E-mail: sipp{at}cdb.riken.jp
