1st iPS Regenerative Medicine Product Transplanted in Japan
Tokyo, Sept. 29 (Jiji Press)--A startup linked to the University of Osaka said Tuesday that it had transplanted a sheet of heart muscle cells made from induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells into a woman in her 50s with severe heart failure, marking the first transplant of a regenerative medicine product using iPS cells. The surgery was carried out at Osaka Keisatsu Hospital in the western...
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