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Our new paper assessing trials of cell therapy for COVID-19After the COVID-19 pandemic started clinical trials quickly sprouted up to test various kinds of cell therapy for COVID-19 including…
Weekly stem cell reads: Pew, cord cells for COVID, more
Sometimes the recommended weekly stem cell reads are just a bunch of papers I find intriguing, but more often they …
Duke & Cryo-Cell plan big stem cell clinic for kids for unproven infusions
Duke Professor Joanne Kurtzberg’s clinical work on umbilical cord blood for autism and cerebral palsy (CP) involves a partnership with …
FDA warning to stem cell clinic supplier Utah Cord Bank
A firm called Utah Cord Bank has been in the news related to stem cell clinics over the past year …
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