Cell Therapy News articles from January 2003

Cell Therapy News archives from January 2003

ANNUAL OUTLOOK: A Look Back at Turbulent Year.
January 1, 2003... Wall Street has not been fond of the biotech industry for some time, and cell therapy and regenerative medicine companies have been especially hard-hit, with several bankruptcies and delistings, including Organogenesis and Advanced Tissue...

BASIC SCIENCE: The Biological Clock Is a Single Protein.
January 1, 2003... The biological clock-timekeeper for virtually every activity within living things, from sleep patterns to the growth patterns of individual cells-is a single protein, Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN 47907; Tel: 765/494-4600; Website:...

EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS: Potential International Stem Cell Consortium.
January 1, 2003... According to the San Francisco Chronicle, representatives from several countries, including the United States, have been held preliminary talks in London with the aim of creating an International Stem Cell Consortium. The talks were hosted by...

Sox2 Gene Is ES Master Regulator.
January 1, 2003... Medical Research Council (20 Park Crescent, London W1B 1AL. U.K.; Tel: - 020 7636 5422, Fax: - 020 7436 6179; Website: www.mrc.ac.uk) scientists, led by Robin Lovell-Badge, have made an important discovery about the essential role of a gene...

UMBILICAL CORD STEM CELLS Cord Cells Viable After 15 Years.
January 1, 2003... In a study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Hal Broxmeyer of Indiana University School of Medicine reported that human cord blood frozen in 1985 and 1986 was able to grow in laboratory cultures with the as...

Cord Stem Cells Expanded in Culture.
January 1, 2003... ViaCell, Inc. (551 Boylston St., Suite 40, Boston, MA 02116; Tel: 800/998-4226, Fax: 617/266-3953) has presented study results demonstrating the ability to expand and preserve purified stem cell populations from umbilical cord blood for future...

BLOOD: Tests for Blood Banking.
January 1, 2003... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first two tests designed for use with Roche Diagnostics' (Grenzacherstrasse 124, Postfach Ch-4070, Basel, Switzerland; Tel: +41-61-688-1111, Fax: +41-61-691-9391; Website: www.roche.com)...

BONE MARROW: Marrow Cell Fixes Rat Brains.
January 1, 2003... Scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (8700 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048; Tel: 310/4-CEDARS (423-3277); Website: www.csmc.edu) in Los Angeles led by John S. Yu have tested the possible benefits to using bone marrow-residing stem...

Brain Cells Are Hematopoietic.
January 1, 2003... Bone marrow stem cells can be expanded quantitatively in a laboratory. John P. Chute, of Large Scale Biology Corp. (3333 Vaca Valley Pkwy., Suite 1000, Vacaville, CA 95688; Tel: 707/446-5501, Fax: 707/446-3917; Website: www.lsbc.com), is...

Liver Cells to Marrow Cells.
January 1, 2003... Genetically altered adult liver stem cells cloned from a male rat can turn into functional adult bone marrow cells in female mice, according to a study presented recently at the American Society of Cell Biology's annual meeting in December. The...

NERVOUS SYSTEM: Recipes for Producing Neural Stem Cells.
January 1, 2003... What constitutes a neural stem or progenitor cell? Where do you find them? How can you generate an inexhaustible supply? What can you do with them? These are questions that a new book, Neural Stem Cells-Methods and Protocols (ISBN:...

GROWTH AND DIFFERENTIATION FACTORS Sex Makes Nerve Cells Grow.
January 1, 2003... A new reason to believe that sex is good for you: When mice mate, the smell centers in their brains are triggered to develop new neurons. Researchers at the University of Calgary (2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4; Tel:...

FGF Analogs Licensed to BioSurface.
January 1, 2003... BioSurface Engineering Technologies, Inc. (BioSET, P.O. Box 97, Damascus, MD 20872; Tel: 301/896-9707, Fax: 309/279-3023) has obtained an exclusive worldwide license to a novel growth factor technology developed by scientists at the U.S....

Thymosin Beta-4 to Be Tested.
January 1, 2003... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted the Investigational New Drug application (IND) from RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals (3 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 700, Bethesda, MD 20814; Tel: 301/961-1992, Fax: 301/961-1991; Website:...

KIDNEY: Human Kidneys Grown in Mice.
January 1, 2003... According to the Jerusalem Post, researchers at the Weizmann Institute (P.O. Box 26, Rehovot 76100, Israel; Tel: 08-934-2111, Fax: 08-934-4107; Website: www.weizmann.ac.il) have managed to grow functional miniature human kidneys in a mouse,...

PANCREAS: Stem Cell IP Moves to Singapore.
January 1, 2003... Singapore-based ES Cell International Pte., Ltd. (41 Science Park Rd., No. 04-14/15 The Gemini, Singapore Science Park II, Singapore 117610; Tel: +65 6774 9533, Fax: +65 6774 5077; Website: www.escellinternational.com) has been assigned the...

TISSUE ENGINEERING: Tooth Regeneration Technology Licensed.
January 1, 2003... Dentigenix, LLC (5250 Carillton Point, Kirkland, WA 98093; Tel: 425/822-0902, Fax: 425/893-7777; Website: www.dentigenix.com) been granted an exclusive option by three Boston biomedical institutions-The Forsyth Institute, Harvard School of...

Building Bones in Space.
January 1, 2003... Millennium Biologix, Inc. (785 Midpark Dr., Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7M 7G3; Tel: 613/389-6565, Fax: 613/389-6625; Website: www.millennium-biologix.com) says that a second series of bone cell research experiments from Canada and Europe will...

VACCINES: Breast Cancer Vaccine Safe.
January 1, 2003... The results of a Phase I study indicate that APC8024, Dendreon's (291 North Bernardo Ave., Mountain View, CA; Tel: 415/964-6744, Fax: 415/964-7023; Website: www.dendreon.com) investigational therapeutic vaccine for breast, ovarian, and colon...

INSTRUMENTATION:MEMS Device for Cell Purification.
January 1, 2003... Innovative Micro Technology (IMT, 75 Robin Hill Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Tel: 805/681-2800, Fax: 805/967-2677; Website: www.imtmems.com) has been awarded $1.8 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S....

Analyze This. Analyze That.
January 1, 2003... Cellomics, Inc. (635 William Pitt Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15238; Tel: 412/823-3600) has released three new BioApplication software modules, Molecular Translocation, Micronucleus, and Cell Cycle, for the ArrayScan High Content Screening (HCS) Reader...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Cloning Prohibition Bill Re-Introduced.
January 1, 2003... Reps. Dave Weldon (R-FL) and Bart Stupak (D-MI) have re-introduced the Human Cloning Prohibition Act, the same legislation that passed overwhelmingly in the 107th Congress and the only bill that will prevent both Raelian-style reproductive...

How About a Stem Cell School?
January 1, 2003... According to the Copenhagen Post, a new school for domestic and international stem-cell researchers is will open at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense this year. "We have been able to secure an international panel of advisers and...

CALENDAR.
January 1, 2003... February 1-5, 2003. 2003 Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposium, Miami Beach, FL. Contact: Tel: 305/243-3597; Website: www.med.miami.edu/mnbws March 10-11, 2003. Life Sciences CEO and Investor Forum, Seattle, WA. Contact: Washington...