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Adult stem cell therapies walk the line

Tension between practitioners who believe autologous stem cells should be considered a service and the FDA, which considers some of them biologics, has come to a head in recent months. Laura DeFrancesco investigates.

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DeFrancesco, L. Adult stem cell therapies walk the line. Nat Biotechnol 30, 739–741 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2321

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