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

Hong Kong university finds way to delay aging

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Dec, 2012

Singapore: Researchers from the Department of Biochemistry of University of Hong Kong's (HKU) Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine have identified Lamin A protein as an activator of the longevit...Read more

RNL Bio wins BioSpectrum award for stem cell work

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

Cloning of dog in the past has been done using somatic cells. Researchers at RNL Bio used adipose stem cell-derived from fat tissue to clone a dog. They achieved a breakthrough in cloning t...Read more

Stem cells treat paralysis for the first time ever

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

Singapore: StemCells, a company based in California, US, has for the first time in history of the world developed a treatment that has enabled the reversing of paralysis in three patients. ...Read more

Swiss firm Biosafe expands in China

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Nov, 2014

Singapore: Swiss firm Biosafe, an automated cell processing system manufacturer, has strengthend its presence in China in cord blood banking, regenerative medicine and bioprocessing markets...Read more

CiRA team develops method for renal regeneration

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 12 Feb, 2013

Singapore: The research group led by Associate Professor Kenji Osafune and his colleague Shin-ichi Mae, both from Centre for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University, ha...Read more

Brain stem cell could be critical for active smell sense: NIH

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 13 Oct, 2014

Singapore: Neurons in the brain are believed to be born only during the early development period and could not be replenished. However, recently, scientists at National Institutes of Health...Read more

Celgene to acquire Mesoblast shares at $45 mn

Stem Cells |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 15 Apr, 2015

Singapore: US based Celgene Corporation, a global biopharmaceutical, has agreed to acquire shares of Australia's regenerative therapy company, Mesoblast, at $45 million. Celgene also has a...Read more

Radiotherapy creates cancer stem cells 30 times more potent

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

Singapore: Researchers at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), have found that, despite killing half of all tumor ce...Read more