Life Tech signs agreement with iPS Academia Japan

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 18 Jun, 2012

Singapore: Life Technologies has signed a non-exclusive agreement with iPS Academia Japan for its induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell patent portfolio. The worldwide license will enable Lif...Read more

Stem cell therapy to help the blind regain sight

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 12 Dec, 2012

Singapore: A team of engineers at the University of Sheffield have developed a new method for producing membranes that can help in grafting stem cells onto the eye by mimicking structural f...Read more

Making stem cell therapies a reality

Stem Cells |  News | By Nandita Singh | 0 Comment | 22 Mar, 2012

Real practical challenges persist in the development of stem cell therapies and chief among these are concerns for safety. Innovative technologies and processes are required to overcome the...Read more

Singapore scientists engineer human stem cells

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 09 Dec, 2013

Singapore: A*Star's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have successfully converted human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) cultured in the laboratory to a state that is closer to the cells foun...Read more

Liposuction creates blood vessels for heart surgery

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 11 Oct, 2012

Singapore:. A team of researchers led by Dr Matthias Nollert at the University of Oklahoma in Norman have found that stem cells that are extracted from the fat tissue after liposuction coul...Read more

BioSpectrum announces the hits and misses of 2013

Stem Cells |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 02 Jan, 2014

Asia attracted a lot of interest from foreign multinational giants in the year 2013. This not only led to the increase in the number of acquisitions and mergers (M&A), it also led to a ...Read more

Chugai-Athersys collaborate to develop MultiStem Cell Therapy

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 05 Mar, 2015

Singapore: Chugai Pharmaceutical and US-based Athersys have entered into a partnership and license agreement to exclusively develop and commercialize MultiStem cell therapy for ischemic str...Read more

Nuvilex licenses Austrianova's livecell encapsulation technology

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 14 Nov, 2013

Singapore: Nuvilex, an international biotechnology company providing cell and gene therapy solutions forthe treatment of diseases, has acquired the exclusive worldwide rights to use Singapo...Read more

LifeCell reaches milestone in India

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 10 Aug, 2012

Bangalore: LifeCell International, India's largest stem cell bank, achieved a milestone of successfully preserving 50,000 umbilical cord blood stem cell units in its preservation center and...Read more

Bone marrow banking is a possibility in future

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 22 Mar, 2013

Singapore: More than 50,000 stem cell transplants are performed each year worldwide. A research team led by US-based Weill Cornell Medical College investigators may have solved a major issu...Read more

A*Star stem cells make unlimited kidney cells

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 22 Feb, 2013

Singapore: Researchers at A*star's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore, have generated human kidney cells from human embryonic stem cells in vitro. Specifically,...Read more

Neuralstem gets FDA nod for spinal cord trial

Stem Cells |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 17 Jan, 2013

Singapore: Neuralstem received approval from the US FDA to start phase I safety trials of its lead cell therapy candidate, NSI-566, in chronic spinal cord injury patients. The primary objec...Read more

Scientists grow teeth from gum cells

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 29 Mar, 2013

Singapore: Scientists at King's College London, UK, have developed a way to bioengineer new teeth from a person's own gum cells. Dr Paul Sharpe and colleagues combined human gum cells with ...Read more

Stem cells used to make $385 K lab-grown burger

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 01 Aug, 2013

Singapore: Researchers at Dr Mark Post's laboratory in the Netherlands have grown nearly five oz of meat in their lab and have given it to an anonymous London restaurant for making it into ...Read more

China Cord Blood to advance stem cell service with US tie-up

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 02 Feb, 2015

Singapore: China Cord Blood Corporation (CCBC) and US-based Cord Blood Registry, stem cell companies, have collaborated to share data on cord blood collection, processing and storage to adv...Read more

Stem cells from fat outperform those from bone marrow

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 22 May, 2013

Singapore: Researchers at the Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands, have discovered that stem cells harvested from fat (ad...Read more

Stem cell 'vehicle' gets human trial approval in Spain

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 30 Aug, 2013

Singapore: Stem cell focused firm BioTime has received approval from Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices (AEMPS) to begin human clinical trials of Renevia. Renevia is an unique...Read more

GE fortifies iPS cell-derived cellular assay avenue

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 19 Dec, 2012

Singapore: GE Healthcare Life Sciences has licensed Cellular Dynamics International, US-based commercial producer of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell lines and tissue cells, to dev...Read more