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Florida Is Now a Haven for Unproven Stem-Cell Treatments

Florida Is Now a Haven for Unproven Stem-Cell Treatments

By Emily Mullin - WIRED - Florida is the latest state to sidestep the authority of the Food and Drug Administration by allowing patients to access certain stem-cell treatments that have not been rigorously evaluated and approved. Under a new law that went into effect...

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Ankles may hold the key to new osteoarthritis therapy

Ankles may hold the key to new osteoarthritis therapy

by Duke University - Futurity - The ankle’s ability to regenerate cartilage uses the same mechanisms that enable some animals to grow new limbs, and it could be harnessed to repair cartilage in knees and hips hobbled by osteoarthritis. Those findings in the journal...

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Engineering immune cells within the body

Engineering immune cells within the body

By National institutes of Health - Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies involve taking immune cells, called T cells, from a patient and engineering them to make a protein that lets them recognize and attack the patient’s cancer cells. CAR T cells have...

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