Cell Therapy News articles from September 2002

Cell Therapy News archives from September 2002

EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS Geron Generates Cardiomyocytes.
September 1, 2002... Geron Corp. (230 Constitution Dr., Menlo Park, CA 94025; Tel: 650/473-7700, Fax: 650/473-7701; Website: www.geron.com) scientists have published research results in the September issue of Circulation Research that describe the differentiation...

IMMUNE SYSTEM: Glowing Dendritic Cells in Action.
September 1, 2002... Time-lapse video from a pair of Harvard Medical School (25 Shattuck St., Boston, MA 02115; Tel: 617/432-1000; Website: www.hms.harvard.edu/index.htm) labs shows how pieces of captured pathogens may work their way to the surface of live...

Patent for CpG Activation.
September 1, 2002... U.S. Patent 6,429,199 has been issued the 10th patent owned by or exclusively licensed to Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. (93 Worcester Rd., Suite 101, Wellesley, MA 02841; Tel: 781/431-9000, Fax: 781/431-6403; Website: www.coleypharma.com)....

Monocyte-Derived Antigen Cell Patented.
September 1, 2002... Immuno-Designed Molecules, S.A. (IDM, 172 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, France; Tel: +33 (0) 1 40 09 04 11; Website: www.idm- biotech.com) has been issued a patent in the United States, concerning blood monocyte-derived antigen presenting...

BONE MARROW- DERIVED STEM CELLS Blood Stem Cells Only Make Blood.
September 1, 2002... Researchers at Stanford University Medical Center (300 Pasteur Dr., Stanford, CA 94305; Tel: 650/723-4000; Website: www.med.stanford.edu) tried and failed to coax adult blood-forming stem cells in mice into forming tissues other than blood and...

Neonate Blood Vessels Generated.
September 1, 2002... Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine (660 Euclid Ave, No. 8057, St. Louis, MO; Tel: 314/362-3567) have found that an immature cell that develops in the bone marrow and circulates in the blood contributes to the growth of new...

Drug Reverses Complication.
September 1, 2002... A study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (44 Binney St., Boston, MA 02115; Tel: 866/408-3324; Website: www.danafarber.org) has shown that a drug extracted from porcine intestinal tissue reduced the risk of death in patients...

MUSCLE STEM CELLS Cell Makes Smooth Muscle.
September 1, 2002... Mayo Clinic (200 First St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905; Tel: 507/284- 2511, Fax: 507/284-0161; Website: www.mayoclinic.org) scientists have shown for the first time that an adult stem cell circulating in adult human blood can be driven to form...

Heart Muscle Regeneration.
September 1, 2002... Bioheart, Inc. (2400 N. Commerce Pkwy., Suite 408, Weston, FL 33326; Tel: 954/217-7259, Fax: 954/385-5340) and Ortec International, Inc. (3690 Broadway, New York, NY; Tel: 212/740- 6999, Fax: 212/740-6963; Website: www.ortec.com) have begun a...

NERVE STEM CELLS: Neural Crest Cells Found in Adult Gut.
September 1, 2002... Scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School (M4101 MSI Box 0624, 1301 Catherine Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48109; Tel: 734/763- 9600; Website: www.med.umich.edu/medschool) have found neural crest stem cells-embryonic cells that generate the...

Dimerized FGF Aids Stroke Recovery.
September 1, 2002... Cell therapy company ViaCell, Inc. (551 Boylston St., Suite 40, Boston, MA 02116; Tel: 800/998-4226, Fax: 617/266-3953) has obtained an exclusive worldwide license for dimerized fibroblast growth factor (dFGF), a protein developed by scientists...

TISSUE ENGINEERING Spontaneous Bone Formation Induced.
September 1, 2002... CellFactors, plc (St. John's Innovation Center, Cowley Rd., Cambridge CB4 OWS, England, U.K.; Tel: +44 (0) 1223 422309, Fax: +44 (0) 1223 422016; Website: www.cellfactors.co.uk) claims that its human cell-derived bone-regeneration product...

Grant Awarded for Engineered Cartilage.
September 1, 2002... Isto Technologies, Inc. (1125 Olivette Executive Pkwy., Suite 110, St. Louis, MO 63132-2320; Tel: 314/995-6049, Fax: 314/995-6025; Website: www.istotech.com) has been awarded a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant...

Adult Stem Cells Generate Cartilage.
September 1, 2002... Johns Hopkins University (5601 Loch Raven Blvd, No. 507, Baltimore, MD 21230-2905; Tel: 410/532-4646) researchers have caused stem cells from adult goats to grow into tissue that resembles cartilage, a key step toward creating a minimally...

VACCINES: Phase II for Myeloma Vaccine Initiated.
September 1, 2002... The Pharmaceutical Division of Kirin Brewery Co., Ltd. (10-1 Shinkawa 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8288, Japan; Tel: +81-3-5540- 3411, Fax: +81-3-5540-3547; Website: www.kirin.co.jp) has begun Phase II clinical studies in Japan of Dendreon...

Grant Received for Phase II Trial.
September 1, 2002... NovaRx Corp. (8395 Camino Santa Fe, Suite A, San Diego, CA 92121; Tel: 858/638-0881, Fax: 858/638-0882; Website: www.novarx.org) has been awarded Small Business Innovation Research ("SBIR") Grant from the National Cancer Institute's Small...

ASSAYS: VistaGen Awarded Phase II Grant.
September 1, 2002... VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. (1450 Rollins Blvd., Burlingame, CA 94010-2307; Tel: 650/558-9500, Fax: 650/558-9512; Website: www.vistagen-inc.com) has been award a $1.7 million Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from NIH. The...

TRANSPLANTATION: Pigs Made for Xenotransplantation.
September 1, 2002... PPL Therapeutics, Plc (Roslin, Scotland EH25 9PP. U.K.; Tel: 44 131 440 4777, Midlothian Fax: 44 131 440 4888) has produced the first double gene "knock-out" piglets, which were born as a result of using PPL's proprietary gene targeting...

Islet Transplants Free Patients from Insulin.
September 1, 2002... More diabetic patients are coming off insulin following pancreatic islet cell transplantation than ever before, according to multiple studies presented today at the XIX International Congress of the Transplantation Society held in Hollywood,...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Change Urged for Bush Stem Cell Policy.
September 1, 2002... On the anniversary of President Bush's controversial policy on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, the Alliance for Aging Research pointed to the heated therapeutic cloning debate as one reason for the slow pace of stem cell...

Merger Ends Stem Cell Dispute.
September 1, 2002... CyThera, Inc. (3550 General Atomics Ct., Bldg. 2, Room 503, San Diego, CA 92121; Tel: 858/455-3708, Fax: 858/455-3692; Website: www.cytheraco.com) has acquired Arcos Bioscience, ending a dispute over ownership of a number of human embryonic...

Dendreon Gets Cash Infusion.
September 1, 2002... Dendreon Corp. (291 North Bernardo Ave., Mountain View, CA 94303; Tel: 415/964-6744, Fax: 415/964-7023; Website: www.dendreon.com) will diversify beyond its cancer vaccine program by collaborating with Genentech, Inc. (One DNA Way, South San...

CALENDAR.
September 1, 2002... October 8-9, 2002. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: Commercial Implications for the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries, San Diego, CA. Contact: Strategic Research Institute; Email: skupergerg@srinstitute October 9-11, 2002. 3rd...