Alliance for Regenerative Medicine Launches
Dedicated to advancing scientific research in regenerative medicine WASHINGTON, July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A coalition of universities, life sciences companies, health care investors, and patient advocates with the common goal of advancing cell-based therapies united today to launch th...Organogenesis Launches Regenerative Medicine College Scholarship
Canton High School Senior Is First Recipient CANTON, Mass., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Organogenesis, Inc., a leading regenerative medicine company, has established an annual scholarship program with Canton High School to honor a graduating senior pursuing a career in life sciences...Thirty-seven College Students Participate in Regenerative Medicine Summer Research Program
Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative Marks 12th Year of Summer Internship PITTSBURGH, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty-four undergraduate students from colleges and universities, primarily across southwestern Pennsylvania and the Pittsburgh region, have taken ...Organogenesis Names Regenerative Medicine Expert Dr. Damien Bates Vice President, Medical Affairs
CANTON, Mass., March 17 /PRNewswire/ - Organogenesis, Inc., announced today that Damien Bates, MD, PhD, FRACS (Plast.), has joined the company as vice president of medical affairs. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080317/AQM095 ) Dr. Bates combines more than twelve years of s...Thermogenesis Announces New Initiative to Address Veterinary Regenerative Medicine
Effort is Launched With UC Davis Collaboration RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThermoGenesis Corp. (Nasdaq: KOOL ), a leading supplier of innovative products and services that process and store adult stem cells for treatment of disease and injury, today a...Osteotech to Present at First Albany Capital's Regenerative Technologies Conference in New York
EATONTOWN, N.J., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Osteotech, Inc. (Nasdaq: OSTE ), a global leader in OsteoBiologic solutions for the repair of the musculoskeletal system, announced today that Sam Owusu-Akyaw, Osteotech's President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the First Alba...ThermoGenesis Announces MXP Involvement in New Regenerative Medicine Initiatives
PROGRAMS INCLUDE BONE MARROW CLINICAL TRIAL IN ITALY RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThermoGenesis Corp. (Nasdaq: KOOL ), a leading supplier of innovative products and services that process and store adult stem cells, said today that its MarrowXpress(TM) (MXP(TM)) ...DNA Helps Reunite Children With Their Families
...pments that make life even better. Life Technologies customers do their work across the biological spectrum, working to advance personalized medicine, regenerative science, molecular diagnostics, agricultural and environmental research, and 21st century forensics. Life Technologies had sales of more than $3 billi...Injection Reverses Heart-Attack Damage
...tes (mononucleated) that are most likely to respond to treatment. In 2007, Kuhn and colleagues first demonstrated that the heart has dormant regenerative capacities that can be reawakened. Kuhn developed a sponge-like patch, soaked in a compound called periostin that is abundant in the developing fetal ...Leading Experts Endorse Bioheart's Muscle Stem Cell MyoCell Therapy
...aking the claim to actually induce neomyogenesis and that is why it deserves our attention." Dr. Warren Sherman, Director, Stem Cell Research and regenerative Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, discussed the anticipated MARVEL study, "this study, once completed, will be the bench mark and we are...ProFibrix Initiates Phase II Clinical Trial of its Lead Topical Hemostat Product Fibrocaps(TM)
...bsidiary in Seattle, WA. The company leverages its expertise in fibrinogen technology to develop and market innovative products for the hemostasis and regenerative medicine markets. Human fibrinogen plays a pivotal role in blood clotting and tissue healing. ProFibrix is led by a team with extensive commercial, cl...Osteotech Completes Enrollment for DuraTech(TM) BioRegeneration Matrix Clinical Trial
...der in the emerging field of biologic products for regenerative healing, announced today that it has completed enr... platform will yield safe and clinically effective regenerative healing products that can satisfy the emerging nee... global leader in providing biologic solutions for regenerative medicine to support surgeons and their patients in...ThermoGenesis Announces National Institute of Health Grant
...FIRST-EVER NIH GRANT WILL BE USED TO DEVELOP CELL DELIVERY TECHNOLOGIES FOR regenerative MEDICINE APPLICATIONS RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., June 9 /PRNewswire-First...aterials that can be used to deploy placental stem cells in bone repair and regenerative medicine applications. The approximate $500,000, two-year grant, the C...New method developed by UC San Diego bioengineers gives regenerative medicine a boost
Bioengineers at UC San Diego have developed a breakthrough method for sequencing-based methylation profiling, which could help fuel personalized regenerative medicine and even lead to more efficient and cost-effective methods for studying certain diseases. To do this, the researchers, led by K...From stem cells to new organs: Stanford and NYU scientists cross threshold in regenerative medicine
By now, most people have read stories about how to "grow your own organs" using stem cells is just a breakthrough away. Despite the hype, this breakthrough has been elusive. A new report published in the March 2009 issue of The FASEB Journal ( http://www.fasebj.org ) brings bioengineered organs ...UTSA wins $500,000 to develop biosensor and regenerative medicine Ph.D. program
San Antonio The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced today it will receive $500,000 from The University of Texas System over the next five years to develop a unique Graduate Program Initiative emphasizing biosensors and regenerative medicine. Of the 37 proposals received by the UT...Cytori reports benefit of adipose-derived regenerative cells in spinal disc model
Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYTX) reported preclinical study results, which demonstrate the potential benefit of adipose-derived stem and regenerative cells (ADRCs) for the treatment of damaged intervertebral discs, evidenced by significantly increased disc tissue density and disc-specific ...Embryonic heart exhibits impressive regenerative capacity
A new study demonstrates that the embryonic mouse heart has an astounding capacity to regenerate, a phenomenon previously observed only in non-mammalian species. The research, published by Cell Press in the October 14th issue of the journal Developmental Cell , describes the previously unrecogniz...Pittsburgh researchers identify source of multipotent stem cells with broad regenerative potential
In a promising finding for the field of regenerative medicine, stem cell researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC have identified a source of adult stem cells found on the walls of blood vessels with the unlimited potential to differentiate into human tissues such as bone, cartilag...Gladstone and Izumi Bio in partnership in regenerative medicine and cardiovascular disease
SAN FRANCISCO, CA June 16, 2008 --- iZumi Bio, Inc. and The J. David Gladstone Institutes, an independent non-profit biomedical research organization, have announced a major research collaboration and licensing agreement to focus on applications for induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. iPS c...Rice and UT-Houston join DOD push for regenerative medicine
The Department of Defense (DOD) today announced that Rice University and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will spearhead the search for innovative ways to quickly grow large volumes of bone tissue for craniofacial reconstruction for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan....Stanford scientists make major breakthrough in regenerative medicine
Findings described in a new study by Stanford scientists may be the first step toward a major revolution in human regenerative medicine—a future where advanced organ damage can be repaired by the body itself. In the May 2007 issue of The FASEB Journal, researchers show that a human evolutionary anc...Nanotechnology propels advances in regenerative medicine research
The study, which was directed by Scripps Research Professor Benjamin Cravatt, Ph.D., is being published in the September 8 issue of The Journal of Biological Chemistry. The new study describes a pathway-different than the one previously suggested-for the biosynthesis of neurotransmitter lipids, N...NeoStem, Inc. to Enter the Regenerative Medicine Market in Asia
NEW YORK, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeoStem, Inc. (Amex: NBS ), which is pioneering the pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need, announced today that it has agreed to acquire a Hong Kong corporation, whose wholly-owned subsid...MUSC Spin-Off Company to Test Regenerative Wound Healing Gel
CHARLESTOWN, S.C., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- First-String Research, Inc. (FSR), a spin-off biotechnology company from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), has begun the human clinical trial process for its unique, wound-healing peptide gel. Already past the preliminary appr...