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Rise of experimental stem cell treatments sparks calls for international regulations
The Independent
Lives are being put at risk by the “unscrupulous” marketing of unproven stem cell treatments, a group of leading scientists has warned. Advertising that exaggerates the benefits of experimental therapies is encouraging patients to travel to other …
‘Stem–cell tourism’ needs tighter controls, say medical expertsWHTC
Experts call for action over stem cell tourismThe Scotsman
The worrying rise of medical tourism: Experts warn that hundreds of clinics across the world are selling unsafe stem …Daily Mail

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Rise of experimental stem cell treatments sparks calls for international regulations
The Independent
Lives are being put at risk by the “unscrupulous” marketing of unproven stem cell treatments, a group of leading scientists has warned. Advertising that exaggerates the benefits of experimental therapies is encouraging patients to travel to other …
‘Stem–cell tourism’ needs tighter controls, say medical expertsWHTC
Experts call for action over stem cell tourismThe Scotsman
The worrying rise of medical tourism: Experts warn that hundreds of clinics across the world are selling unsafe stem …Daily Mail

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‘Stem–cell tourism’ needs tighter controls, say medical experts
Reuters
“Stem cell therapies hold a lot of promise, but we need rigorous clinical trials and regulatory processes to determine whether a proposed treatment is safe, effective and better than existing treatments,” said one of the 15, Sarah Chan of Britain’s …
Rise of experimental stem cell treatments sparks calls for international regulationsThe Independent
Experts call for action over stem cell tourismThe Scotsman
The worrying rise of medical tourism: Experts warn that hundreds of clinics across the world are selling unsafe stem …Daily Mail

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‘Stem–cell tourism’ needs tighter controls, say medical experts
Reuters
“Stem cell therapies hold a lot of promise, but we need rigorous clinical trials and regulatory processes to determine whether a proposed treatment is safe, effective and better than existing treatments,” said one of the 15, Sarah Chan of Britain’s …
Rise of experimental stem cell treatments sparks calls for international regulationsThe Independent
Experts call for action over stem cell tourismThe Scotsman
The worrying rise of medical tourism: Experts warn that hundreds of clinics across the world are selling unsafe stem …Daily Mail

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‘Stem-cell tourism’ needs tighter controls, say medical experts …
Reuters
Stem-cell tourism involving patients who travel to developing countries for treatment with unproven and potentially risky therapies should be more tightly …
Rise of experimental stem cell treatments sparks calls for …The Independent
Experts call for action over stem cell tourismThe Scotsman
Experts Warn Against Medical Tourism For Unproven Stem Cell TreatmentsHuffington Post Australia
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Personalized cancer vaccines vanquish melanoma in small but encouraging study
STAT
And although it’s possible to engineer them to hook up to more than one matching molecule, or antigen, most CAR-Ts in development target only one. As a result, if tumor cells jettison that antigen, they might … In the pilot study, scientists led by …

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CRISPR Gene-Editing Tool Could Be Used to Diagnose Viruses
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“I think the public perception of CRISPR is very focused on the idea of using gene editing clinically to cure disease. This is no doubt an exciting possibility, but this is only one small piece,” said Neville Sanjana, of the New York Genome Center and …