Medicine: Monitoring and regulating offshore stem cell clinics

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5921, 2009, Pages 1564-1565

  Kiatpongsan, Sorapop ^a,b,c   Sipp, Douglas ^d,e  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; DISEASE TREATMENT; HOSPITAL SECTOR; MEDICINE; MONITORING SYSTEM;

EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; THERAPEUTICS;

EID: 62849090001     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168451     Document Type: Short Survey

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