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Weekly reads: stem cell good news, bad news on sickle cell, MS, IPSCs

Let's start with some stem cell good news on evolving approaches to treat sickle cell disease involving stem cells. Then on another related front things were more concerning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F871t8c4mHk Stem cell good news on sickle cell disease, a complication Sickle Cell Disease News reports Adding Briquilimab Boosts Success of Sickle Cell Stem Cell Transplant. This is a story some of enhancing …
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3rd Invitrx warning highlights FDA oversight weakness

3rd Invitrx warning highlights FDA oversight weakness
The FDA seems oddly slow in oversight of unproven stem cell clinic-related firms like one here in California called Invitrx Therapeutics. I've written before about Invitrx, but interactions between them and the FDA have continued including a new warning letter. It's become a puzzling situation. More broadly, the FDA has done relatively little in the past two years on unproven stem …