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The Japanese health ministry on March 17 approved two regenerative medicine products including Japan Tissue Engineering’s (J-TEC) autologous cultured epidermal cell sheet Jacemin for the treatment of vitiligo. Jacemin was approved for vitiligo for which nonsurgical therapy is ineffective or…
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