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Podcast: Eat Move Think
Episode: PRP, Regenerative Cell Therapies and Commercial Cell Banking with Drew Taylor of Acorn Biolabs
Description: Regenerative cell therapy may one day help us all grow our own replacement parts. People with heart failure could get a transplant for an entirely new heart, made out of their own cells. Burn victims, or people who just want wrinkle-free skin, could grow new sheets of the stuff — from their own tissues. Younger cells may provide better raw material for these therapies than older versions, and so a commercial cell banking industry has sprung up to provide the required cryogenic storage for about the price of a Netflix subscription. But is it worth it? To help listeners decide, Me...