Leading geneticist Samir Brahmachari explains why India should kickstart a new ‘open source’ approach to drug discovery for diseases like TB. (SciDev)

Lori Erickson-Trump has faked headaches and back pain. She’s had physicals and MRIs she didn’t need and she gets paid for it - all to evaluate the performance of doctors and their staffs. (AP)

In April, a paralysed man returning to Colorado from experimental stem cell therapy in India said he could feel the waistband of his pants for the first time in years. Like others before him, he couldn’t say how many cells he had received or how his treatments had worked. Nor had his doctor published any details. (Nature)

Some unethical Web sites and clinics are offering “snake oil” treatments that claim to provide cures using stem cells but are at best raising false hopes, stem cell experts said on Thursday.

The International Society for Stem Cell Research said it wants to counter these misleading claims with a set of guidelines for researchers and the public alike, in part to preserve the reputation of the field. (Reuters)

A video that explores the questions “What does it mean to be human? Who decides?” Produced by The Tennessee Center for Bioethics & Culture.

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