{"id":264697,"date":"2026-05-09T10:53:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264697\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T10:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:53:52","slug":"broward-lab-ramps-up-stem-cell-production-in-plantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264697\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward lab ramps up stem-cell production in Plantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778324032_664_TFL-L-BIO-lab-tour-7-050526.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Andrew Majdoch, vice president of technical operations, gives a tour of the newly expanded facility at GBI Biomanufacturing in Plantation.\" alt=\"Andrew Majdoch, vice president of technical operations, gives a tour of the newly expanded facility at GBI Biomanufacturing in Plantation.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Andrew Majdoch, vice president of technical operations, gives a tour of the newly expanded facility at GBI Biomanufacturing in Plantation.<\/p>\n<p>            Amy Beth Bennett \/ South Florida Sun Sentinel<\/p>\n<p>Inside a pristine laboratory at GBI Biomanufacturing in Plantation, stem-cell production ramps up, producing regenerative medicine with the potential to repair a torn rotator cuff, deep skin tear or an arthritic knee.<\/p>\n<p>The escalation comes as the outlook for stem-cell therapies in Florida grows, driven by a new law that widens the path for doctors to use them to manage pain or treat orthopedic injuries and wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Stem cells often are touted as a cure-all for everything from joint pain to Alzheimer\u2019s, but the FDA has approved them only for a narrow set of disorders affecting blood production. Now, some states are making their own rules. Florida is one of five states that has green-lighted stem-cell use for conditions not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That new law sparked GBI to increase its stem-cell manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/05\/07\/demand-is-growing-plantation-lab-ramps-up-stem-cell-production\/\">Read the full story at Sun-Sentinel.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Majdoch, vice president of technical operations, gives a tour of the newly expanded facility at GBI Biomanufacturing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-264697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}