Biotech Breakthroughs: Who Gets Fixed, and Who Decided We Were Broken?
On August 7, Biostar announced that its stem cell therapy for autism had been approved for use at Trinity Clinic in Osaka. Using fat-derived stem cells taken from the patient’s own body, the treatment involves five to ten intravenous injections spaced a few weeks apart. It’s framed as a regenerative medicine approach to repair what autism supposedly disrupts. The company’s pitch is clear: inject, measure, normalize.
This isn’t a treatment. It’s a technical assault on autistic embodiment.
Biostar claims it can soften or erase traits like social difference, repetitive movement and anxiety. Its evidence? A mouse chemically altered to mimic symptoms it never chose, evaluated with a scale that punishes autistic behavior for existing. This isn’t science. It’s behavioral eugenics in a lab coat.
No peer-reviewed clinical trials. No longitudinal data. No accountability. Just regulatory arbitrage in a country where regenerative medicine laws are so lax that they allow clinics to bypass the standards that would tank this proposal anywhere else.
This isn’t a gap in oversight. It’s a business model.
And let’s be clear: calling it autologous and non-invasive doesn’t make it benign. This is elective biomedical intervention on a non-consenting neurotype, authorized by parents, marketed to desperation, and justified by the idea that autistic people need fixing before they can be worth keeping.
That is not medicine. That is eugenic logic in modern dress.
We are not a failed version of someone else. We are not broken tissue. We are people. And any research enterprise that builds its future on our erasure is not just mistaken — it is dangerous.
Let’s not confuse clinical theater with care. A syringe doesn’t absolve the violence of its premise. No child chooses this. No science justifies it. And no society that claims to value human dignity should let its most misunderstood children become test sites for capital-backed correction. If this is the future of autism research, it is one built not on progress but on betrayal.