Asymmetrex Starts New Campaign for Greater Awareness of the Importance of Counting Tissue Stem Cells

Now that Massachusetts stem cell biotechnology company Asymmetrex has developed the first and only technology for specific and accurate counting of therapeutic tissue stem cells, today the company has launched a campaign to alert stem cell scientists, physicians, and patients to the long unmet need of a means to count tissue stem cells. The major misconception that compromises progress in stem cell medicine is the presumption, by a surprising number of people even in the stem cell field, that stem cell scientists and physicians have had a way to count the stem cells in their investigations and treatments, when in fact they have not.

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Asymmetrex’s director, James L. Sherley, M.D., Ph.D., asks audiences questions like, “How far do you think we would have gotten in medicine, if we didn’t have the means to measure the number of drug molecules in drug development research or in medicines used to treat patients?” His answer, “Nowhere! And that is what’s holding up progress in stem cell medicine.”

“Can you imagine taking an approved medicine or an experimental medicine without knowing its dose?” Yet, that is exactly how both approved stem cell medical treatments and investigational ones in clinical trials are conducted, without knowing the number of stem cells administered to the patient.

The awareness campaign was launched today with four new posts on the company website. These early posts provide general information on stem cell science and stem cell medicine in a question-answer format. Director Sherley explains, “Stem cell counting is not the only misconception about stem ...

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