'Since Regenocyte began offering treatments in the Dominican Republic in February 2008its doctors have performed 75 of what it calls myocardial cellular regeneration procedures at a cost of $64,500 a pop — not a penny of which is covered by insurance. The process kicks off in Naples Florida with a blood draw; the blood is then immediately whisked by courier to the lab of Regenocyte's affiliateTheraVitae, in Tel Aviv, Israel for centrifuging and culturing. After a 5-day incubation period which increases the stem cells' numbers a thousandfold a TheraVitae representative boards a flight with the stem cells in a temperature-controlled tissue container and arrives in Santo Domingo on the morning of the procedure. Shuttling cells back and forth across six time zones and performing the procedure outside the United States allows the company to operate without interference from U.S. Authorities.' The story continues here:

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