Row over controversial stem-cell procedure flares up again

January 31, 2014

(Nature) – Top scientists in Italy have called on the health minister Beatrice Lorenzin to reconsider the composition of the new scientific advisory committee she has proposed to assess a controversial stem-cell therapy offered by the Stamina Foundation. Their move follows a renewed media frenzy around the affair, prompted by statements made to the press and television by the committee’s proposed president, Mauro Ferrari, shortly after he was nominated on 28 December.