Gene and Cell Therapy – News and Features

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Amorcyte Completes Phase I Trial of Stem Cell Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction
Amorcyte lead product, AMR-001, is an autologous stem cell product for the treatment of damaged heart muscle following AMI.

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StemCellPatents.com Launches Free Stem Cell Patent Database
Oraginization's website provides comprehensive summaries and analysis of over 1200 patents hand-picked by experts in the field to be of relevance to stem cell commercialization and development.

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Q Therapeutics Selects Goodwin Biotechnology for Manufacturing of Its Monoclonal Antibody
GBI has begun process development and will be manufacturing a monoclonal antibody used by Q Therapeutics in purifying its cell therapy product, Q-Cells™.

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Organogenesis Announces Acquisition of NanoMatrix
Company strengthens scaffold-engineering capabilities with electrospinning platform technology and team.

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Stem Cells Helped Repair Stroke Damage in Rats, Early Stanford Study Shows
Neural cells derived from hESC helped repair stroke-related damage in the brains of rats and led to improvements in their physical abilities after a stroke.

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Gene Therapy Protocol at UCSD Activates Immune System in Patients with Leukemia
Researchers report that the patients with CLL who were treated with a gene therapy protocol began making antibodies that reacted against their own leukemia cells.

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Stem Cell Firm Selects Newcastle for European Base
RNL Bio has signed an initial 12 month tenancy agreement for a unit at the ‘Cels at Newcastle’ bio-incubator at Newcastle University's Medical School.

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JDRF Partners with Plureon to Explore Generating Insulin-Producing Cells from Adult Stem Cells
JDRF is providing $500,000 over two years of research funding aimed at developing an insulin-producing beta cell therapy product for the treatment of type 1 diabetes.

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South Korean Stem Cell Firm Enters Into an Agreement with Tiantan Puhua Hospital in China
RNL Bio entered into an agreement with Tiantan Puhua Hospital for stem cell treatments for complications including spinal cord injury, hair loss and osteoarthritis.

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Telepathic' Genes Recognize Similarities in each Other
Genes have the ability to recognize similarities in each other from a distance, without any proteins or other biological molecules aiding the process, according to new research.
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