Let’s start with the birds and the bees: when a baby is born, carried with it is the amniotic membrane of the placenta, which contain a host of human stem cells. In the past, this mess of afterbirth would be tossed in the trash with yesterday’s lunch. Now, a new question may be posed to 21st century parents: Why throw out all of that useful material when you could grow organs with it? Based in Chicago, IL, AmnioChor Inc. is a very new startup that hopes to harvest unused human stem cells in for possible use in regenerative medicine, cellular therapy, and the bioprinting of human tissues.…
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