New Stem Cell Therapies
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Recent research advances and relaxation of government restrictions have opened the stem cell field to product possibilities. Companies developing these potentially revolutionary products must also come up with workable business models. In this issue we profile five emerging contenders: Amorcyte, California Stem Cell, Cardio3 BioSciences, CellDesign and Fate Therapeutics.
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