A Japanese health ministry proposal to impose steeper price cuts on certain medicines deemed to carry poor cost-effectiveness profiles cleared…
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Life Science Institute to Test Muse Cell Therapy in ALS
Life Science Institute, a Mitsubishi Chemical group company, said on January 28 that it will start an exploratory clinical trial in Japan for its multi-lineage differentiating stress enduring (Muse) cell therapy CL2020 for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).This…
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