{"id":18465,"date":"2008-03-18T09:24:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T16:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/03\/chinas-stem-cell-tourism\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T09:24:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T16:24:18","slug":"chinas-stem-cell-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/03\/chinas-stem-cell-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Stem-Cell Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Louisa Lim reports on Morning Edition that American tourists are traveling to China in greater numbers not for the Great Wall or the Xi&#8217;an soldiers, but for experimental medical treatments not offered back home:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China is gaining popularity among a new breed of travelers: patients with incurable conditions who are visiting the country to receive experimental stem-cell treatments not offered in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>One company is now claiming a medical breakthrough, advertising that its treatments are restoring vision to blind children. It has ignited a firestorm of controversy in both China and in the U.S. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sean Hu, the 40-year-old chairman of Beike Biotechnology, is a medical doctor-turned-entrepreneur with a doctorate in biochemistry from a Swedish university.<\/p>\n<p>Less than three years ago, he set up Beike. Since then, 3,000 patients \u2014 most of them from China \u2014 have received Beike&#8217;s stem-cell treatments for a wide range of conditions. 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