Our story begins in a wondrous land called Torona, far from the North Pole, where mythical creatures – half human, half reindeer – have dedicated their adult years to the admirable pursuit of helping to treat patients around the world with “regenerative medicines,” whether they’ve been naughty or nice. When they aren’t busy with their mission of creating new companies, devising better ways to manufacture cells and figuring out how to make friends with others like them the world over, they dance. And then they dance some more. Between trying to revolutionize treatments for degenerative diseases through the development and commercialization of cell-based products and therapies, and dancing, they have time for little else. Occasionally they binge watch a Netflix series while eating certain types of lichen that grow in sub-arctic climates. Although their exact location is kept secret due to the nature of their important work, we have managed…

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