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

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Stem Cells as a Treatment for Cancer

The public's perception of this is a little bit skewed because of misnomers and misideas, but also this has been valued for thousands of years. So if you think about it, we have our own endogenous population of stem cells that can be driven to do things based upon lots of different signals. If they're malfunctioning for some reason, why not just take them out and replace them? Well, it was the challenge of replacing that was really the genesis of many companies today in the field of cellular medicine. For replacement approaches to work, you need to have a one size fits all cell.

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