{"id":12906,"date":"2009-05-20T15:34:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/china_fails_to_convince_on_stem_cell_claims\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:34:25","slug":"china_fails_to_convince_on_stem_cell_claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12906","title":{"rendered":"China fails to convince on stem cell claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, the Chinese government announced it was setting up a body to regulate the stem cell therapy sector, to stop unlicensed bodies setting up to cash in on what is a major growth market.<\/p>\n<p>However, the regulations are still in an early form, and Beike is strongly supported by local government agencies, and is unlikely to fall foul of new rules.<\/p>\n<p>Stories of patients travelling to China for costly stem cell therapies depress Dr Stephen Sullivan, visiting research fellow at Trinity College Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not because of the loss of money, but rather that stem cell research has yet to give patients and their loved ones a legitimate option,\u201d\u009d he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/health\/2009\/0519\/1224246872180.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, the Chinese government announced it was setting up a body to regulate the stem cell therapy sector, to stop unlicensed bodies setting up to cash in on what is a major growth market. However, the regulations are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12906\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,201,502,199,104,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-china","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}