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TMHS 622: The Truth About Stem Cells & The Future of Precision Medicine – with Dr. Robert Hariri

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Is Your Immune System Pre-Programmed to Respond to Threats?

The incidence of malignant transfer from a mother to a developing fetus is essentially nonexistent. The placenta has a unique cell called a natural killer cell and that cell is pre-programmed to go after certain signals of diseased or threatening material. We actually treated some COVID patients in our clinical trial that the FDA permitted using placental natural killer cells in the disease. It's our objective to get better and better at immunotherapy to get beyond infectious diseases but also use it to do therapies for cancer, therapies for acquired abnormalities.

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