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They're licensed for blood-forming stem cell transplants, not as new tissue-repair drugs.\n- Only 5 are engineered or cultured tissue by their own names: GINTUIT (\"Allogeneic Cultured Keratinocytes and Fibroblasts in Bovine Collagen\"), MACI (\"Autologous Cultured Chondrocytes on a Porcine Collagen Membrane\"), STRATAGRAFT (cultured skin cells in murine collagen), RETHYMIC (processed thymus tissue) and SYMVESS (\"acellular tissue engineered vessel\").\n- The other 40 are mostly gene therapies (for example ZOLGENSMA) and engineered immune-cell therapies such as CAR-T (for example ABECMA).\n\nWhy it matters: FDA received 91 RMAT (Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy) designation requests in FY2025 alone (see [post 89](https://rrsrch.com/api/engine/v1/posts/89)). That's more requests in one year than there are licensed products on the whole list. The pipeline is big, but the approved shelf of true tissue-replacement products is still a handful. 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