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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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Mesenchymal stem cell therapy shows potential: Study review

Mesenchymal stem cell therapy shows potential: Study review

by Steve Bryson, PhD - Multiple Sclerosis Today - More study needed to support evidence, researchers say. Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy is safe and well tolerated, and leads to improvements in disability and a reduction in lesion burden in people with multiple...

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We need new regulation to keep up with longevity innovation

We need new regulation to keep up with longevity innovation

By Danny Sullivan - Longevity.Technology - Healthspan Action Coalition's Bernard Siegel says new state laws show the federal government needs to ‘get its act together’ on patient access to innovative therapies. As a member of the Florida Bar Association for the past...

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Pentagon seeks sensors to aid regenerative medicine

Pentagon seeks sensors to aid regenerative medicine

By Lauren C. Williams - Defense One - And as a byproduct, to boost the U.S. biotech industry. The Pentagon is looking for tiny sensors that track the health of biological tissue, part of an effort to help soldiers recover from wounds—and give the U.S. biotech industry...

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