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Is REGROW Act anti-embryo research? Pluripotent stem cells excluded

Is REGROW Act anti-embryo research? Pluripotent stem cells excluded

The REGROW Act has attracted both support and criticism, including on this blog, for the changes it would mandate in the way the FDA regulates stem cell products. More specifically it would greatly reduce regulation of experimental stem cell products. I believe that would be dangerous to patients and to the stem cell field more generally.

One additional important issue about REGROW that oddly…

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REGROW Act is Attack on Science-Based Stem Cell Trial Oversight

REGROW Act is Attack on Science-Based Stem Cell Trial Oversight

Senators Mark Kirk, Joe Manchin, and Susan Collins have proposed new legislation in the form of the REGROW Act that would substantially interfere with the FDA’s ability to properly regulate the development of new stem cell and regenerative medicine therapies based on hard science.

The REGROW Act would force the FDA to allow rushed introduction of experimental stem cell interventions into patients…

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