He believes that a study done ten years earlier by an academic researcher on a single subject could have foretold the events with TGN1412.

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The man behind the technology is Immerz CEO and president Shahriar Afshar, a physics researcher infamous in academic circles for a controversial experiment he conducted on Harvard in quantum mechanics.

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Researcher Dr John Kastelein, from the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, said the only side effect of the drug was some mild stomach problems.

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