Scientists accidentally discover a way to treat Aloepecia

Until now, scientists have had little idea of what causes hair loss as a symptom, but this discovery gives doctors and s...

June 8, 2017 | Thursday | News
Human Heart Tissue Grown from Stem Cells Improves Drug Testing

Singapore - Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR have engineered a three-di...

June 8, 2017 | Thursday | News
China to conduct first human trials on embryonic stem cells

Surgeons in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou will begin the process of injecting the brains of people with Parkinson’...

June 5, 2017 | Monday | News
Self-renewing hematopoietic stem cells created for transplantation

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered an innovative method to make an unlimited supply of healthy blood ...

May 24, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Artificial mouse 'embryo' created from stem cells for first time

Researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK have successfully created artificial mouse embryos in lab, using ...

March 6, 2017 | Monday | News
Stem cell scientist sues Nobel laureate for deception

Singapore: Dr Rongxiang Xu, a scientist who claims to be the founder of human body regenerative restoration science, has...

May 17, 2013 | Friday | News
CardioCel heals the heart by attracting stem cells

Singapore: Australia-based Allied Healthcare has demonstrated that its cardiovascular patches, CardioCel, promote healin...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Vitro Diagnostics, StemGenesis tie up for China market

Singapore: Vitro Diagnostics has signed an agreement with StemGenesis for the exclusive distribution of its products in ...

September 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
Cellular launches stromal cell purification kit

Singapore: US-based Cellular Biomedicine is all set to launch 'A-Stromal', a  adipose stromal cell purification kit in ...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Novogen progresses on drugs against genetic, degenerative disorders

Singapore: Australian company Novogen, engaged in a pilot program aimed at breakthrough development of drugs to treat a ...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Fat influences decisions taken by brain cells

Singapore: Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, identified two molecules that help in the survival and producti...

December 31, 2012 | Monday | News
Singapore Scientists Grow Mini Human Brains

Singapore: Scientists in Singapore have made a big leap on research on the 'mini-brain'. These advanced mini versions of...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | News
Stem cell study reveals potential diabetes cure

Singapore: A research conducted by Australian scientists on stem cells has shown that patients suffering from type 1 dia...

December 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Asia's first dental stem cell bank is here

With the experience of scientists having discovered the optimum medical therapeutic utilizing the nucleus of regenerativ...

October 28, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
UK, Australia research institutes collaborate on T-cell stimulation technology

The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT) and the CRC for Cell Therapy Manufacturing (CTM CRC), the Australian centre for...

May 26, 2016 | Thursday | News
Biobanking has attractive prospects in Asia

Asia is becoming increasingly important as a market for upcoming biobanks. Within Asia, India, China and Japan have attr...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
China Cord Blood, Cordlife join hands for stem cell therapy services

Singapore: China Cord Blood Corporation (CCBC) and Cordlife Group, a multi-product healthcare company catering to the mo...

July 25, 2014 | Friday | News
Jeremy Yee quits China Cord Blood board

Singapore: Mr Jeremy Yee, an independent non-executive director of China Cord Blood Corporation (CCBC), a provider of co...

September 30, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
LifeCell offers Dual Storage of stem cells

Singapore: LifeCell International, India's largest stem cell storage company, announced the launch of India's first Dual...

December 21, 2012 | Friday | News
Cynata appoints Paul K Wotton to Board of Directors

Singapore: Australian stem cell and regenerative medicine company, Cynata Therapeutics Limited, has announced that highl...

June 13, 2016 | Monday | News
Korea's Green cross expands cell therapy business in China

Singapore: South Korean biopharmaceutical company, Green Cross, is expanding its presence in China by building a cell th...

March 12, 2015 | Thursday | News
Taiwan approves stem cell supplement by RBC Life Sciences

Singapore: Taiwan has approved import and sale of Stem-Kine, a stem cell supplement by RBC Life Sciences, in the country...

August 28, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
ReproCELL to launch human iPS-derived neurons

Singapore: ReproCELL, which commercializes human pluripotent stem cells as an effective tool for drug discovery and deve...

June 8, 2012 | Friday | News
Dr Silviu Itescu: Pioneer of adult stem cell therapies

A Quinquagenarian from Australia, Dr Silviu Itescu, is based out of the US and has been traveling tirelessly between New...

March 15, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Stem cell model for hereditary disease developed

Singapore: Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have developed a new method of using adult stem c...

October 26, 2012 | Friday | News
Taiwan's ITRI showcases biomedical innovations

Singapore: Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) celebrated BIO Day on August 30th with a focus on pe...

September 1, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Plasticell appoints Veritas as the exclusive distributor

Singapore: Plasticell, the biotechnology company specialising in high throughput technologies for directed stem cell di...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | News
World's first kidney stem cells developed in Melbourne

Singapore: Science has made great progress in conjuring up brain or retina cells. However, researchers have not been suc...

May 14, 2012 | Monday | News
Biosafe enters China stem cell market after SFDA approval

Singapore: Swiss company Biosafe, which is active in the field of design, manufacture and marketing of automated cell pr...

November 20, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Rainbow Bioscience looks to China for stem cell research

Singapore: In a continuing effort to expand its research into possible cures for neurological diseases gaining in preval...

October 9, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Scientists generate bone from stem cells in fat

Singapore: Bone grafts grown from purified stem cells originating from fat could lead to a more efficient way to regener...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Axol Bioscience appoints Prof Xianmin Zeng as CSO

Singapore: Axol Bioscience, a biotechnology company, specialising in the use of stem cell technology to manufacture dise...

January 13, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Stem cell may extend life span'

Singapore: Korean researchers have determined the possibility that adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) may extend health...

August 31, 2015 | Monday | News
Cancer-specific killer T cells created from iPS cells

Singapore: Researchers from the RIKEN Research Centre for Allergy and Immunology in Japan have succeeded, for the first ...

January 7, 2013 | Monday | News
Life Tech signs agreement with iPS Academia Japan

Singapore: Life Technologies has signed a non-exclusive agreement with iPS Academia Japan for its induced pluripotent st...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | News
Stem cell therapy to help the blind regain sight

Singapore: A team of engineers at the University of Sheffield have developed a new method for producing membranes that c...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Making stem cell therapies a reality

Real practical challenges persist in the development of stem cell therapies and chief among these are concerns for safet...

March 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
Singapore scientists engineer human stem cells

Singapore: A*Star's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have successfully converted human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) c...

December 9, 2013 | Monday | News
Liposuction creates blood vessels for heart surgery

Singapore:. A team of researchers led by Dr Matthias Nollert at the University of Oklahoma in Norman have found that ste...

October 11, 2012 | Thursday | News
BioSpectrum announces the hits and misses of 2013

Asia attracted a lot of interest from foreign multinational giants in the year 2013. This not only led to the increase i...

January 2, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Chugai-Athersys collaborate to develop MultiStem Cell Therapy

Singapore: Chugai Pharmaceutical and US-based Athersys have entered into a partnership and license agreement to exclusiv...

March 5, 2015 | Thursday | News
Nuvilex licenses Austrianova's livecell encapsulation technology

Singapore: Nuvilex, an international biotechnology company providing cell and gene therapy solutions forthe treatment of...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
LifeCell reaches milestone in India

Bangalore: LifeCell International, India's largest stem cell bank, achieved a milestone of successfully preserving 50,00...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | News
Bone marrow banking is a possibility in future

Singapore: More than 50,000 stem cell transplants are performed each year worldwide. A research team led by US-based Wei...

March 22, 2013 | Friday | News
A*Star stem cells make unlimited kidney cells

Singapore: Researchers at A*star's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore, have generated human...

February 22, 2013 | Friday | News
Neuralstem gets FDA nod for spinal cord trial

Singapore: Neuralstem received approval from the US FDA to start phase I safety trials of its lead cell therapy candidat...

January 17, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
Scientists grow teeth from gum cells

Singapore: Scientists at King's College London, UK, have developed a way to bioengineer new teeth from a person's own gu...

March 29, 2013 | Friday | News
Stem cells used to make $385 K lab-grown burger

Singapore: Researchers at Dr Mark Post's laboratory in the Netherlands have grown nearly five oz of meat in their lab an...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | News
China Cord Blood to advance stem cell service with US tie-up

Singapore: China Cord Blood Corporation (CCBC) and US-based Cord Blood Registry, stem cell companies, have collaborated ...

February 2, 2015 | Monday | News
Stem cells from fat outperform those from bone marrow

Singapore: Researchers at the Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Th...

May 22, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Stem cell 'vehicle' gets human trial approval in Spain

Singapore: Stem cell focused firm BioTime has received approval from Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices (AE...

August 30, 2013 | Friday | News
GE fortifies iPS cell-derived cellular assay avenue

Singapore: GE Healthcare Life Sciences has licensed Cellular Dynamics International, US-based commercial producer of hum...

December 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong university finds way to delay aging

Singapore: Researchers from the Department of Biochemistry of University of Hong Kong's (HKU) Li Ka Shing Faculty of Med...

December 24, 2012 | Monday | News
RNL Bio wins BioSpectrum award for stem cell work

Cloning of dog in the past has been done using somatic cells. Researchers at RNL Bio used adipose stem cell-derived from...

April 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
Stem cells treat paralysis for the first time ever

Singapore: StemCells, a company based in California, US, has for the first time in history of the world developed a trea...

October 11, 2012 | Thursday | News
Swiss firm Biosafe expands in China

Singapore: Swiss firm Biosafe, an automated cell processing system manufacturer, has strengthend its presence in China i...

November 17, 2014 | Monday | News
CiRA team develops method for renal regeneration

Singapore: The research group led by Associate Professor Kenji Osafune and his colleague Shin-ichi Mae, both from Centre...

February 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Brain stem cell could be critical for active smell sense: NIH

Singapore: Neurons in the brain are believed to be born only during the early development period and could not be replen...

October 13, 2014 | Monday | News
Celgene to acquire Mesoblast shares at $45 mn

Singapore: US based Celgene Corporation, a global biopharmaceutical, has agreed to acquire shares of Australia's regener...

April 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Radiotherapy creates cancer stem cells 30 times more potent

Singapore: Researchers at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, University of California Los ...

October 11, 2012 | Thursday | News
Biosafe to expand stem cell banking business in India

Singapore: Biosafe, which is a Switzerland-based manufacturer of automated cell processing systems, partnered with Indi...

September 24, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Stay forever young with Johns Hopkins stem cells

Singapore: Johns Hopkins has confirmed the development of a method, by which we can obtain stem cells without destroying...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
Embryonic stem cells remain a sticky wicket

Dr Shinya Yamanaka and Sir John Gurdon's discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) has given the world an altern...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
S Korea pushes for rigorous standards in stem cell banking

Singapore: Seung-Jo Yang, a South Korean member of Parliament, has prepared a bill proposing new laws for the managemen...

September 21, 2012 | Friday | News
US firm gets FDA nod for stem cell Ph2 trial

Singapore: US based Clinical research company, Antria, has recieved FDA approval to initiate Phase 2 clinical trials wit...

January 13, 2015 | Tuesday | News
RetroNectin now available for clinical research

Singapore: In an effort to aid progress in gene therapy clinical research, representatives of Clontech Laboratories and ...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Stem cells used to build first-ever live human mini-brain

Singapore: Scientists led by Dr Jürgen Knoblich at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Ac...

August 30, 2013 | Friday | News
EU recommends stem cell therapy

Singapore: European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended Holoclar, an advanced therapy medicinal product (ATMP) contai...

December 22, 2014 | Monday | News
BioTime appoints Adi Mohanty as COO

Singapore: Stem cell therapy company, BioTime, has appointed Mr Adi Mohanty, ex-Shire executive, as chief operating offi...

December 30, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
Singapore stem cell firm initiates for ASX listing

Singapore: On Q Group, changing its name to StemCell United, a Singapore-based biotechnology company headquartered in Au...

July 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Korea builds stem cell infrastructure

Singapore: South Korea has made strong advancement in stem cell research, through government support and efforts of acad...

September 12, 2014 | Friday | Influencers
International Society of Cell Therapy appoints Dr Anish Majumdar as VP-Elect for Asia

Singapore: Dr Anish S Majumdar, chief scientific officer and Executive VP at India based Stempeutics Research, is electe...

March 20, 2015 | Friday | Influencers
Cells that undergo nuclear transfer can live forever, says Nobel winner

Sir John Gurdon, the 2012 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, says that all cells in the body are made up of a...

March 12, 2014 | Wednesday | Influencers
Johns Hopkins' scientists analyze brain stem cell behavior

Singapore: Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have figured out how stem cells found in a part of the ...

August 8, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Roche, Oxford University to do stem cell R&D

Singapore: Roche and the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) launched StemBANCC, a new academic-industry partnership t...

December 10, 2012 | Monday | News
What's the stem cell regulatory scenario like in APAC?

The pioneering work of Nobel Laureates Sir John Gurdon and Dr Shinya Yamanaka on reprogramming adult stem cells has open...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Umbilical cord stem cells used to treat heart

Singapore: A joint study conducted at University of Toronto and Princess Margaret Hospital, Canada, revealed that human ...

November 23, 2012 | Friday | News
Stemcell-derived anti-aging product hits market

Singapore: Ms Kathy Ireland, CEO and chief designer of kathy ireland Worldwide (kiWW) and Dr David Scharp, leading women...

May 22, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Sticky' biopolymer developed to grow stem cells

Singapore: A study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, US, and the University of Sheffi...

December 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Renowned scientist gets stem cell patent in China

Singapore: Dr Rongxiang Xu, a scientist working in the domain of human body regenerative restoration science, has been g...

September 16, 2013 | Monday | News
International Stem Cell Corporation receives Stem Cell Patent in Japan

International Stem Cell Corporation, a California-based biotechnology company developing novel stem cell based therapies...

March 19, 2015 | Thursday | News
NIH places GSC's 25 stem cell lines on its registry

Singapore: Genea Stem Cells (GSC), a supplier and developer of disease-specific human stem cells, announced that 25 of ...

January 15, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Stem cell scientist Dr Yoshiki Sasai is dead

Singapore: Dr Yoshiki Sasai, former Director of Japan's RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) and a stem cell sci...

August 5, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Beike awaits CFDA nod for stem cell application

Singapore: China-based Beike Biotechnology has recieved Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) nod for filing the a...

July 14, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
Investors eye Japan's pharma law reformation

Singapore: Assuming the role of Prime Minister of Japan in December 2012, Mr Shinzo Abe has provided a boon for Japanese...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Stem cells offer hope to patients needing amputation

Singapore: Korean researchers found that the transplantation adipose (fat) derived stem cells resulted in the regenerati...

September 7, 2012 | Friday | News
Cell therapy could be the solution of kidney diseases'

Singapore: Australia biotech firm, Mesoblast, has successfully concluded phase 2 trial of infusion of its cell therapy c...

June 10, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Asian Regenerative Center to open in the Philippines in September

Singapore: The Asian Regenerative Center for Cellular Therapies (ARCCT), which is expected to open in September 2012, wi...

July 13, 2012 | Friday | News
Stem cells have much to offer, says Dr Silviu Itescu

Dr Silviu Itescu formed Mesoblast in 2004 to commercialize orthopedic applications of proprietary adult stem cell techno...

March 15, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Sanofi raises stem cell transplants' awareness for cancer

Singapore: Sanofi Oncology and BMT InfoNet are joining forces to inform patients and the public about the importance of ...

October 26, 2012 | Friday | News
Stem cell transplant a possibility for eye disease

Singapore: Stem cells transplant could be a possible treatment for eye disease, according to a recent trial conducted in...

October 15, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Singapore scientists unearth embryonic stem cell behaviour

Singapore: Scientists from Singapore's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), a research institute under the Ag...

September 21, 2015 | Monday | News
At reproductive age, men have more stem cells

Bangalore: Men have relatively more bone marrow stem cells than women of the same reproductive age, says a study done on...

May 15, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Merck Millipore, Sistemic join hands for stem cell production

Singapore: Merck Millipore and Sistemic, a leading provider of microRNA-based problem-solving services and kit-based pro...

November 5, 2012 | Monday | News
RNL BIO files IND for stem cell product with FDA

Singapore: RNL BIO, Korea-based stem cell biotechnology company, has filed an Investigational New Drug application (IND)...

May 3, 2013 | Friday | News
Dainippon invests in Retina Institute, gets stem cell technology

Singapore: Retina Institute Japan (RIJ), RIKEN, Japan, and Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP) have signed an agreement acco...

April 1, 2013 | Monday | News
AABB certifies Beike cord blood, tissue banking

Singapore: Beike Biotechnology has been awarded AABB accreditation for cord blood and cord tissue banking. This accredit...

May 31, 2012 | Thursday | News
Japan team creates liver from stem cells

Singapore: A team of scientists from Japan have created a functioning human liver from stem cells, raising hopes of manu...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | News
Stem cells may treat Lou Gehrig's disease

Singapore: A study conducted by AriSLA-the Italian Foundation for Research on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) has re...

January 15, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Enzyme that accelerates blood cancer is found

Singapore: An international team of researchers, comprising of principal investigator Dr Catriona H M Jamieson, associat...

December 27, 2012 | Thursday | News

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