China Greenlights First Stem Cell Therapy On Mixed Clinical Findings

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China has granted its first approval for a stem cell therapy, to domestic firm Platinum Life Biotech’s umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cell product for corticosteroid-failed acute graft-versus-host disease with gut involvement.

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The hUC-MSC PLEB001 is a human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy. • Source: Shutterstock

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