BioCardia Aims To Defy Precedent With A Cardiac Cell Therapy

Heart disease seems impervious to cell therapy approaches. Is biomarker stratification the answer?  

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If at first you don’t succeed, narrow down the population and try again. This is what BioCardia did last month, beginning a new Phase III trial of its autologous CardiAMP cell therapy in heart failure after a previous one was stopped in the summer.

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