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Horse owners who provide a sample oftheirt animal’s bone marrow can have a treatment for a soft tissu injury within two weeks, lab director Sean Owens told the San Francisc o Business Times . The cost is abour $1,800. Treatments can be frozen for future use. Though it’sz been in business aboutr six weeks, the new lab formallh celebrated its opening with a partyon Monday. an assistant professor in thevet school, overseess the lab, which has 11 faculth and a handful of post doctora l students. A $2.
5 million grant from hors e enthusiast Dick Randall providesd most ofthe center’s funding, though it also sharesz a two-year SBIR grant of $500,000 from the Nationakl Institutes of Health for work with Rancho Cordova-baseed (NASDAQ: KOOL). Randall, from Cupertino, gave the mone with his wife, Carolyn, after one of theid horses was hurt. Such soft tissue injuries to a horse’sw ligaments and tendons can’t easily be treate using conventional therapy, Owens Past treatments focused as they often do inpeople — on “anti-inflammatoriees and rest,” he said. But the leftovedr scars were a problem. “Scar tissue is less strong, has less tensilw strength.
It often does lead to immobilization,” Owens Stem cell treatments replace the tissue without suchscaras forming. This is the No. 1 type of injurhy among sport performance horses, he said. Owens said interest is growinb in stem cell treatments for animals just as it is for and attitudes arealso “The culture has changed and one of the key thingds is we don’t deal with embryonic stem We deal with adult derived stem We don’t have to address that sort of ethical he said. He expectsz his group to be able to applty for grants from a wider range of funding sources asinterest grows.
who is also section head of the school’s transfusiohn medicine service, compared the quintessentiak change of stem cell therapies to the medical revolutionof penicillin. “Thisa is the first therapy to come along in 50 years that is aimedc at therapeutic cure rather than pharmacological he said. The lab, formally namec the RegenerativeMedicine Laboratory, is workinbg with Thermogenesis on “models that bridge the gap betweenh human and animal health.
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