A company called Lifeforce has received FDA approval to store white blood cells for people as a "back-up copy of your immune system". The idea is that those pre-diseased cells could be reproduced in the lab and infused back into your body when needed to fight off infection or deal with the aftermath of chemotherapy.
This entry was published on June 25, 2007 at 06:16 pm.
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