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