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STAT+: Color me skeptical: Drinking gold is not an ALS cure
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This is the online version of Adam’s Biotech Scorecard, a subscriber-only newsletter. STAT+ subscribers can sign up&#x A0;here&#x A0;to get it delivered to their inbox. It’s been a while since I wrote a “Mean Adam” newsletter. The biotech company Clene is developing a treatment for ALS called CNM-Au8 that it describes as a “highly concentrated aqueous suspension of catalytically-active, clean-surfaced, faceted gold nanocrystals.” Allow me to translate: The Clene “drug” is gold microdust suspended in water.Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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