Life science company Factor Bioscience has received the first patent for the reprogramming cells using RNA from the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), which is widely used in biological research and personalized medicine. Factor ...
The world’s first lab-grown burger is set to be sold in London, a move which could help meat industry solve issues such as high amount of feed, fuel and water required to produce beef. The burger is being developed by the researcher ...
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Stemline Therapeutics' SL-401 has won orphan drug designation from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of aggressive hematologic malignancy blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN). With an orphan drug ...
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Epidermal stem cells are the only cells that have the capacity to generate new cells for skin renewal. However, as the years go by, the rate of cell proliferation is reduced and consequently cell turnover slows down. PhytoCellTec ...
Sangamo BioSciences has received a $6.4m strategic partnership grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) for the development of ZFP Therapeutic for Beta-thalassemia. The application of its zinc finger nuclease ...
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BioRestorative Therapies (BRT) has signed a consulting agreement with Dexterity, to develop and manufacture BRT's proprietary therapeutic delivery device for its intervertebral disc stem cell therapy program, brtxDISC (Disc Implanted Stem ...
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics has obtained US patent for methods of use of interleukin 13-receptor alpha 2 protein (IL-13Rα2) in cancer immunotherapy. IL-13 is an immune regulatory cytokine and IL-13Ra2 is highly and specifically ...
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Neuralstem has obtained notice of allowance for a patent that covers various methods to use expanded spinal cord stem cells such as NSI-566 to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). The company completed Phase ...
US-based biotechnology company BioTime and its subsidiary LifeMap Sciences have entered into a definitive data mining collaboration agreement. Under the agreement, BioTime will use LifeMap's computer-based tools to extract information ...
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The USFDA has granted orphan drug designation to Pluristem Therapeutics' PLacental eXpanded (PLX) cells to treat aplastic anemia. The failure of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) present in the bone marrow to produce red blood cells, white ...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc have expanded its suite of cryopreservation reagents with the introduction of the Thermo Scientific HyClone HyCryo and HyCryo-STEM cryopreservation media, enabling researchers to maximise the preservation, ...
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TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications today announced that with its latest installation of CompacT SelecT™, the technology remains the most widely adopted ...
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Genea Stem Cells Pty Ltd (GSC), a supplier and developer of disease-specific human stem cells, has announced that 25 of its disease specific embryonic pluripotent stem cell lines have been placed on the USA National Institutes of Health ...
Agilent Technologies Inc and WiCell have announced that WiCell is now offering comparative genomic hybridisation plus single nucleotide polymorphism microarray analysis using the Agilent SurePrint G3 Human Genome CGH+SNP Microarray. ...
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The Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) in Israel has awarded $3m NIS grant to support BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics' research and development program for stem cell therapy candidate, NurOwn. NurOwn is an autologous, adult stem cell ...
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