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Article: Company opens commercial adult stem-cell bank.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- May 19, 2004
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2004 MAY 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- NeoStem, Inc., a company committed to pioneering adult stem-cell therapeutics, has opened a commercial adult stem-cell bank and is now collecting stem cells from individuals who wish to store their cells on a pre-disease basis.
The NeoStem collection center - the first in what will be a series of centers in southern California - is located in Los Angeles, California.
Emerging therapies involving one's own adult stem cells are expected to grow rapidly as regenerative medicine revolutionizes treatment options in the 21st century. According to the National Institutes of Health, the therapeutic use of adult stem ...