Stem cells: Hope and hype
Discovery
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The FDA's Response to Stem Cell Treatments
The story of Galen Dinnings' contaminated batch of stem cells was told by American reported Laura Beale in a podcast series for Wondery called Bad Batch. She recorded a meeting with the FDA's Dr Peter Marx who's in charge of stem cell regulation, and she asked him a question. Do you think international regulation is needed? I think it's very difficult to apply this as an international regulation,. Ultimately, the regulation needs to be applied at a domestic level. What has the FDA done? The FDA recently released this warning video directed at potential patients. They told me that back in 2017, they gave the industry three years to clean up its act to get in line with strict
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