Cell Therapy News articles from April 2003

Cell Therapy News archives from April 2003

EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS: Friendly Method of Cloning Animals.
April 1, 2003... Two variations of a user-friendly nuclear transfer technique for cloning an adult animal from a single cell will make animal cloning much easier and more cost effective, according to reports in the spring [5(1), 2003] issue of Cloning and Stem...

Hundreds of Clones from a Single Chip.
April 1, 2003... According to New Scientist, a chip that will automatically create hundreds of cloned embryos at a time is being developed by a Californian biotech company. If it lives up to its promise, the chip should help make cloning cheap and easy enough...

Primates May Be Hard to Clone.
April 1, 2003... Fundamental flaws in embryonic development may make therapeutic cloning of nonhuman primates difficult, and reproductive cloning of primates-nonhuman and human alike-impossible, a team of researchers from the Pittsburgh Development Center...

Geron Reports Success with Embryonic Cells.
April 1, 2003... Geron Corp. (230 Constitution Dr., Menlo Park, CA 94025; Tel: 650/473-7700, Fax: 650/473-7701; Website: www.geron.com) reported multiple advances in its human embryonic stem cell (hESC) programs at the 2003 Keystone Symposium entitled "From...

UMBILICAL CORD CELLS: Russia Opens Its First Stem Cell Bank.
April 1, 2003... Cryomedica (Moscow, Russia; Tel: (095) 139-48-71; Website: www.cryomedica.com) has opened Russia's first stem cell bank, offering parents the opportunity to preserve their children's genetic material for possible future use in fighting...

IMMUNE SYSTEM: T Cells Rescue Myeloma Patients.
April 1, 2003... Xcyte Therapies, Inc. (1124 Columbia St., Suite 130, Seattle, WA 98104; Tel: 206/262-6200, Fax: 206/262-0900) has initiated a Phase I/II clinical trial evaluating the use of its Xcellerated T Cells to treat patients with multiple myeloma, a...

NERVOUS SYSTEM: Protein Promotes Nerve Regeneration.
April 1, 2003... A team led by Larry Benowitz, one of the Boston Life Sciences' (31 Newbury St., Suite 300, Boston, MA 02116; Tel: 617/425-0200, Fax: 617/425-0257) collaborating scientists at Harvard Medical School, discovered a means to stimulate nerve fiber...

TISSUE ENGINEERING: Rice Gets Grant for Cartilage Replacement.
April 1, 2003... Rice University (P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77252-1892; Tel: 713/348-0000; Website: www.rice.edu) has received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to develop biodegradable plastics...

Regenerating Bone with Tissue Repair Cells.
April 1, 2003... Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. (24 Frank Lloyd Wright Dr., P.O. Box 376, Ann Arbor, MI 48106; Tel: 313/930-5555, Fax: 313/665-0485; Website: www.Aastrom.com) has released the results of a study in which the company's Tissue Repair Cells (TRCs) were...

Medtronic's rhBMP-2 Bone Graft Cage Approved.
April 1, 2003... Medtronic (7000 Central Ave., NE, Minneapolis, MN 55432; Tel: 612/514-4000, Fax: 612/514-6272; Website: www.medtronic.com) announced that the company's INFUSE Bone Graft/LT-CAGE Lumbar Tapered Fusion Device has received approval for sale in...

WOUND REPAIR: Pilot Study Successful for Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
April 1, 2003... Ortec International (3690 Broadway, New York, NY; Tel: 212/740- 6999, Fax: 212/740-6963; Website: www.ortec.com) has announced that results from a multi-center pilot study in diabetic foot ulcers have been accepted for publication in a...

VACCINES: Cell Genesys to Present GVAX Data.
April 1, 2003... Cell Genesys, Inc. (342 Lakeside Dr., Foster City, CA 94404; Tel: 650/425-4400, Fax: 650/358-0803) has announced that two of its submitted abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the 2003 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)...

INSTRUMENTATIONS: Asian Demand Keeps Orders Flowing.
April 1, 2003... Thermogenesis (3146 Gold Camp Dr., Rancho Cordova, CA 95670; Tel: 916/858-5100, Fax: 916/635-2163) has received its seventh BioArchive order from Korea. The system was ordered by the company's distributor, Mirr SciTech, for installation at a...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Israeli Stem Cell Consortium Launched.
April 1, 2003... Gamida-Cell, Ltd. (Jerusalem, Israel; Tel: 972-55-365220; Website: www.gamida-cell.com) announced today plans to be one of the leaders of the newly established Israel Stem Cell Therapy Consortium. The purpose of the Consortium, recently...

PMHC Buys PPL Therapeutics.
April 1, 2003... The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC, 200 Lothrop St., Pittsburgh, PA 15213; Tel: 412/647-UPMC; Website: www.upmc.com) and other investors have formed Regenecor Holdings, Inc., a privately held Delaware corporation, to acquire PPL...

Stemco Biomedical Gets $9.8 Million.
April 1, 2003... StemCo Biomedical, Inc. (2810 Meridian Pkwy., Suite 148, Durham, NC 27614; Tel: 919/484-2571), a research triangle park company engaged in the development of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) identification products, has secured a Series B round of...

VistaGen Gets Asian Partner.
April 1, 2003... VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. (1450 Rollins Blvd., Burlingame, CA 94010-2307; Tel: 650/558-9500, Fax: 650/558-9512; Website: www.vistagen-inc.com) a has signed a strategic research partnership with Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho Co., Ltd. ("SKK"), an...

Briefly Noted:.
April 1, 2003... * Geron (230 Constitution Dr., Menlo Park, CA 94025; Tel: 650/473-7700, Fax: 650/473-7701; Website: www.geron.com) has entered into an agreement to sell four million shares of Geron common stock to two investors at $4.60 per share, for gross...

CALENDAR.
April 1, 2003... April 27-29, 2003. Development of Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines, Los Angeles, CA. Contact: International Association for Biologicals; Fax: +41 22 301 10 37; Email: iabs@iabs.org April 28-30, 2003. Biotechnica America 2003: International...