Category: Cell therapy
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Biotech dreams & Startup nightmares
Let me take you back to a time when Avatar was breaking box office records, everyone was pretending to love quinoa, and I was an eager Master’s student interning at a small biotech startup. Let’s call it…BioHopeful Inc. (to spare feelings). The Product That Could Have Been a StarAt the core of BioHopeful’s ambitions was… Read more
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Promise and Challenges of Cell Therapy
Cell therapy isn’t as new as many believe. The concept of using cells as a therapeutic tool has been around for centuries. Blood transfusions, for instance, have been saving lives for centuries, and xenotransplantation, like using pig heart valves in humans, has been performed since the 1960s. These are early forms of ‘cell-based’ therapies that… Read more