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The story provides a realistic and accurate introduction to the complex process of developing best practice clinical stem cell-based treatments, in an interesting and engaging way.
The Hope Beyond Hype comic came from the brains of OptiStem, a large European consortium of stem cell researchers, to go beyond just explaining the science of stem cells. They wanted to show the process of moving stem cell research on towards clinical trials and therapies.
OptiStem was a partnership of 18 different leaders in stem cell research, funded by the European Commission. It brought together scientists, companies and clinicians from 18 institutions across six countries. During the course of the five year OptiStem project, members carried out four different clinical trials concerning muscular dystrophy, severe corneal injury in the eye and severe damage to the oral mucosa (inside of mouth). OptiStem partnered with EuroStemCell to tell people about their work.
