US FDA Pressing Industry To Use Standards For Cell and Gene Therapies
Executive Summary
A US FDA official is exhorting the biopharmaceutical industry to adopt standards to help in developing new cell and gene therapy products, yet this may pose difficulties as there is a lack of standards in this space, particularly in areas such as cell viability, chain of identity and viral vector gene quantification.
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