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California stem-cell agency’s supporters reveal plan for $5.5-billion ballot initiative

A New Frontier for Understanding Fatty Liver Disease

The Context: Fatty liver diseases such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), non-alcoholic stereohepatitis (NASH), and Wolman disease are especially difficult to study and treat due to the lack of effective disease models that recapitulate their...

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California stem-cell agency’s supporters reveal plan for $5.5-billion ballot initiative

New grant funds anti-aging study

IMAGE: Baboons at the Southwest National Primate Research Center. Credit: Kathy West Studios Already approved FDA drug could impact brain cell function Texas Biomedical Research Institute San Antonio, Texas (June 17, 2019) - The William and Ella Owens Medical Research...

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California stem-cell agency’s supporters reveal plan for $5.5-billion ballot initiative

Chinese hospitals set to sell experimental cell therapies

Under a draft proposal, patients would be able to buy some therapies without regulatory approval. By: David Cyranoski Select elite hospitals in China could soon be able to sell experimental therapies that engineer a patient’s own cells to treat diseases such as cancer...

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