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West urges curb on Indian clinic's untested treatment · Controversial stem cell work gets patient backing Randeep Ramesh in New Delhi Friday November 18, 2005 The Guardian Western researchers have called for tighter curbs on Indian clinics making "extravagant claims" over the use of embryonic stem cells after a Delhi doctor this week said she had treated 100 terminally ill patients with the therapy. Experts in Britain expressed concern and scepticism on hearing that Geeta Shroff, 41, who runs a genetics research laboratory and hospital in south Delhi, had produced and purified stem cells from human embryos. They said it was "highly improbable" that Dr Shroff had, as she claimed, treated in this way a variety of incurable conditions ranging from renal failure to cerebral palsy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn