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Advanced Cell-based Therapy Booming the Success for Healthcare Sector
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\nAdvanced Cell-based Therapy Booming the Success for Healthcare Sector\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\n\n\nIssued on behalf of Avaí Bio, Inc.VANCOUVER, BC, March 24, 2026 /CNW/ -- USANewsGroup.com — The FDA has approved more than 40 cell and gene therapy products. The regenerative medicine market is projected to reach $578 billion by 2033. Cell therapy alone surpassed $8.2 billion this year. But every cell-based therapy — no matter how revolutionary the science — begins with the same foundational requirement: a reliable, standardized bank of cells to work from.\nWithout that cellular starting material, there is no consistency, no scalability, and no path from laboratory discovery to therapeutic development. A Master Cell Bank (MCB) is the process of taking a single genetically engineered cell and cloning it into tens of millions of identical copies under GMP-compliant conditions. It's the foundational infrastructure that ensures every subsequent step in therapy development works from the same characterized, quality-controlled source. It's not the therapy itself — it's the prerequisite that makes therapy development possible.That distinction matters, because the companies advancing cell therapies right now are each navigating their own version of the journey from cellular science to clinical reality. Prime Medicine (NASDAQ: PRME) is developing prime editing — a next-generation gene editing platform that rewrites DNA without cutting both strands, reducing off-target risks that have haunted earlier CRISPR approaches. The precision is remarkable, but the path from edited cell to approved therapy is measured in years of development, trials, and manufacturing scale-up. Madrigal Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: MDGL) presented two-year data showing its therapy, Rezdiffra, significantly improved liver stiffness and fibrosis biomarkers in patients with compensated MASH cirrhosis — demonstrating that biological interventions can deliver sustained, measurable reversal of chronic organ damage.Iovance B...