Sentences with phrase «cell companies based»

Despite this, «one 2009 estimate put the number of stem - cell companies based in China at around 100», says Doug Sipp, a stem - cell ethics and regulation researcher at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan.

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• Tessa Therapeutics, a Singapore - based biopharmaceutical company focusing on T cell therapy for solid tumors, raised $ 80 million in funding.

But like many other, overly optimistic hydrogen - based fuel entrepreneurs, Dean, whose company made a specialized membrane that was to be used in the fuel - cell modules, watched the ground open beneath his feet as the commercial take - up proved to be far slower than anyone anticipated.

Perth - based marine farming company Cell Aquaculture has cancelled a deal with Noble Rate to buy its Roxy Casino in Cambodia after it failed to source skilled workers and keep up with ongoing reporting procedures.

Bentley - based information technology company ISA Technologies has become the first organisation in the southern hemisphere to use revolutionary new IBM Cell chip technology for high performance computing and visualisation.

The squeeze system Sharei then designed to temporarily disrupt cell membranes — for which he's been granted most of his 10 patents — is the basis for SQZ Biotech, the company he co-founded in 2013 with the pioneering MIT professors he worked for: Klavs Jensen, the school's head of chemical engineering, and Robert Langer, a renowned bioengineer and serial entrepreneur.

• Vineti, a San Francisco - based cell and gene therapy software and analytics company, raised $ 13.75 million in Series A funding.

• Luxcel Biosciences, an Ireland - based company that had developed technology to monitor the growth and viability of cells for pharmaceutical safety, was acquired by Aglient Technologies, according to The Irish Times.

US - based pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences entered the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T - cell therapy business through its acquisition of Kite Pharma, and Australian biopharma company CSL Behring acquired US - based Calimmune, a company that develops clinical - stage gene therapy solutions.

XRO was developed based on the company's experience in helping a major wireless carrier in India launch an LTE network with thousands of cell sites quickly using hundreds of inexperienced personnel.

First, the interns will gather information about research institutions, academic researchers, and companies conducting work in adjacent research areas (e.g. cell therapy company) who are currently using technologies that are applicable to plant - based and clean meat research or food technology.

Cuomo and the Business Council made their announcement of the endorsement at a Plug Power, a company based in a suburb of Albany that manufactures hydrogen fuel cells.

Silevo is a California - based company that develops and manufactures silicon solar cells and modules, with an already established manufacturing plant in China.

A transformative cancer therapy based on modified immune cells has lured doctors, companies, and patients alike, but many are hitting a frustrating roadblock: generating enough of these chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)- T cells to meet surging demand.

Geron was bigger and better funded than ACT, and it was the first company to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test a therapy in humans based on embryonic stem (ES) cells.

One company, Melbourne, Australia — based Mesoblast, is already in late - stage clinical trials, treating hundreds of chronic heart failure patients with stem cell precursors drawn from healthy donors» hip bones.

A prototype device built by nScrypt, a company in Orlando, Florida, deposits one - hundredth - of - an - inch - thick dollops of lab - cultured cells onto a layer of gel - based paper invented at the University of Utah.

Another company, Belgium - based TiGenix, hopes to attack scar tissue before it forms by treating patients with a mixture of heart stem cells within seven days of a heart attack.

The cnidocysts» brutal efficiency served as inspiration for the Israel - based drug company NanoCyte, which hopes to harness the anemone's stinging cells to create a unique drug for diabetics.

The immediate payoff was a commercialization deal in age - related macular degeneration in which Pfizer became the first big pharma company to make a move into the use of embryonic stem cells as the basis for a tissue regeneration therapy.

Israel - based company, Emefcy, named as a play on the acronym for microbial fuel cell (MFC), starts with the same principle as most wastewater treatment — water is aerated so bacteria in the liquid break down organic material in a closed series of containers known as a bioreactor.

Davy and Loo have started a new company, called Andluca Technologies, based on the technology described in the paper, and are already exploring other applications for the transparent solar cells.

Another partner in the research was Spectrolab, a US - based company that provided some of the cells used in the project.

A company called Clontech — also based in Palo Alto — makes virally derived vectors that carry the gene for GFP into cells.

The Kyoto - based company Kyosemi has developed a power - harvesting solar cell that imitates the way that trees collect sunlight from various angles with their leaves.

The telecommunications company is already running a pilot project in Nuremberg to investigate the extent to which air pollution can be calculated on the basis of cell phone data.

Two Dutch scientists working for the biotechnology company GenPharm International, based in California, received a patent for a transgenic mouse which is deficient in T cells and is used to study immune disorders.

And Beijing - based Wu Stem Cells will probably do likewise for the same reason, says company director Cheng Bo.

(That's right — a company built on chips based on silicon is trying to get the world to move away from using it in solar cells.)

The DKFZ researchers conducted this study in collaboration with Epiontis, a Berlin - based company that specializes in the epigenetic tests that were used to determine the ratio of the various T cell populations.

This particular type of cell - based HTS assay is used by many of the fast - track biotechs and pharmaceutical companies, and they take good care of their people.

Elsewhere in the United Kingdom, researchers at the University of Sheffield and Roslin Cells, a company based in Edinburgh, are also establishing clinical - grade lines.

A U.S. - based company has received permission to start Europe's first clinical trial involving human embryonic stem (hES) cells.

In Germany, for example, the Munich - based biotech company apceth has already treated patients» gastrointestinal cancer with stem cells harvested from their own bone marrow and modified to convert a prodrug called ganciclovir.

So Waseem Qasim at University College London created UCART19 cells with help from Paris - based biopharmaceutical company Cellectis instead.

Abnormal levels of the proteins may be useful biomarkers that could help us study early treatments to limit or reverse the damage to brain cells and even prevent the development of the full - blown disease,» said study author Edward Goetzl, MD, a Professor of Medicine with the University of California, San Francisco, a researcher at the National Institute on Aging, and a scientist of NanoSomiX, Inc., a California - based biotechnology company that provided a grant for method development for the study.

Ben Shepherd and colleagues at Organovo, a bioengineering company based in San Diego, California, used a 3D printer loaded with human cells to build a functional «mini-liver».

Cynata Therapeutics Limited is an Australian clinical - stage stem cell and regenerative medicine company developing therapies based on its proprietary Cymerus ™ stem cell technology platform.

The Monash BDI researchers worked in collaboration with Canadian - based company Kinexus, and used an antibody microarray to simultaneously investigate hundreds of factors involved in cell signalling that were modulated by HCV replication, including human protein kinases.

The multidisciplinary Southampton team, led by Dr Jessica Teeling, and in collaboration with Lundbeck (a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Denmark), engineered three antibodies to change the way they engage cells in the immune system.

Vancouver - based Stemcell Technologies is one company that has specialized in stem cell media and reagents for over 15 years, and it's perfectly happy continuing to do just that, says company president and CEO Allen Eaves.

Ed Field currently is the Chief Operating Officer of Cytomedix, Inc. (OTCBB: CMXI), a US - based company that is developing and commercializing autologous regenerative biotherapies that promote healing by harnessing the innate regenerative capacity of platelets and adult stem cells.

In the longer term, Revive aims to nucleate an even larger scale effort that will bring together an expanding number leading scientists, clinicians and biotechnology companies into a national Consortium for stem cell - based regenerative medicine and drug screening.

CDI is currently supplying embryonic stem cell - derived heart cells to California - based Roche and other pharmaceutical companies for drug screening, and hopes to create other cell types in the future.

Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company dedicated to developing cell - based therapeutics to treat neurological conditions associated with de-myelination and cellular immunotherapies to treat cancer.

Company's biomaterial - based micro-sized compound Regenerods able to attract and stimulate growth of tissue resident stem cells.

The company's proprietary cell therapy programs are based on its immunotherapy and pluripotent stem cell platform technologies.

Advanced Cell Technology, a Santa Monica - based biotechnology company, is seeking FDA approval to use such derived cells to treat Stargardt's macular dystrophy, after studies in rats showed that the cells could restore vision.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE together with the company EV Group (EVG) have developed a new silicon - based multi-junction solar cell, which can convert exactly one - third of the incident sunlight into useful electricity.

The Company's lead product is based on the production of pancreatic progenitors derived from human pluripotent stem cells.