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Adult stem cells treat diabetes

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Thailand’s National Innovation Agency announced success in treating foot wounds of diabetes patients with their own stem cells. Several diabetes patients, aged from 50 to 72, with chronic wounds on their feet, especially difficult in the case of diabetics, were injected with stem cells extracted from their own blood and the wounds completely healed in […]

Thailand BOI approves TheraVitae

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) has approved the Israeli-Thai stem cell therapy company TheraVitae for special investor privileges under the BOI’s foreign investment program. Mr Narin Apichairuk, president of TheraVitae, says this will allow them to open a laboratory near Bangkok. Currently adult stem cells are extracted from patients’ blood and then sent to a […]