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How Fringe Stem Cell Treatments Won Allies on the Far Right

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source link: https://www.wired.com/story/stem-cell-treatment-far-right/
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How Fringe Stem Cell Treatments Won Allies on the Far Right

Advocates for dubious therapies (fight Covid with your own fat!) have latched on to conservative grievances—and formed an unholy alliance.
Collage illustration of Kritin Comella anatomical illustrations and stem cell graphicsIllustration: Sam Whitney; Getty Images

For more than a decade, Kristin Comella, the chief science officer of US Stem Cell Inc., took to conference stages and appeared at health expos evangelizing the benefits of her company’s experimental treatments. By extracting fat through liposuction, then filtering out adult stem cells and reinjecting them into troubled tissue, US Stem Cell could achieve striking improvements, she said, be it to a torn knee, overstressed lungs, or a body suffering from Parkinson’s.

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