CO.DON finally saved

Investor has taken over the business operations of the biopharmacy company

27-Jan-2023 - With effect from 20.01.2023, CO.DON's business activities will be continued in the legal form of a GmbH (limited liability company) following a transferring reorganisation. The asset deal with Rejuvenate GmbH, a company of the American-Chinese ReLive Group, concluded in October 2022 as a result ...

A Speed Limit Could Be a Breakthrough for Stem Cell Therapy

Less speed, improved cellular reprogramming

10-Mar-2022 - Replacing sick or damaged cells with healthy cells: this is a major goal of regenerative medicine. One of the most promising approaches is cellular reprogramming, whereby one cell type in our body converts to another cell type. Research carried out at Helmholtz Munich and ...

Healing Nerves on Spider Silk

Spider silk Janus fibers could attract nerve cells and stimulate their growth

08-Feb-2022 - Spider silk has enormous potential in regenerative medicine thanks to being a natural fiber that is tough, stable, and biodegradable. Researchers have now produced double-sided spider silk fibers, which could provide damaged nerve or muscle cells with a platform for growth. As the researchers ...

A new method of tooth repair?

Scientists uncover mechanisms that could help future dental treatment

13-Aug-2019 - Stem cells hold the key for tissue engineering, as they develop into specialised cell types throughout the body including in teeth. An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden (BIOTEC), has found a new mechanism that could offer a ...

Scientists sharpen their molecular scissors and expand the gene editing toolbox

26-Feb-2019 - Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) scientists have figured out a better way to deliver a DNA editing tool to shorten the presence of the editor proteins in the cells in what they describe as a "hit and run" approach. CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic ...

Hitachi Chemical to acquire apceth Biopharma

04-Feb-2019 - apceth Biopharma GmbH announces that Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. will enter into an agreement to acquire all shares of apceth Biopharma GmbH. This acquisition is expected to close in April 2019. Founded 2007, apceth is a pioneer in cell and gene therapy and has developed into a leading European ...

Making an eye for you

The underlying mechanisms of 3D tissue formation

27-Nov-2018 - If you want to build an organ, such as for transplant, you need to think in 3D. Using stem cells, scientists for some time have been able to grow parts of organs in the lab, but that is a far cry from constructing an actual, fully-formed, functioning, three-dimensional organ. For students of ...

Advancing stem cell therapy with biodegradable scaffold

New technology is aimed at central nervous system diseases and injuries

06-Nov-2018 - Rutgers scientists have created a tiny, biodegradable scaffold to transplant stem cells and deliver drugs, which may help treat Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, aging brain degeneration, spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injuries. Stem cell transplantation, which shows promise as a ...

A medical device for safe growth of neural stem cells using nanotechnology

26-Jun-2018 - The research team of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) invented a medical device with a specific nanotechnology layer for the proliferation and differentiation of neural stem cells (NSCs) in vitro. Compared with traditional methods, the team's novel matrix can reduce the risk of carcinogenesis ...

Prellis Biologics achieves milestone in 3D printing of human tissue with capillaries

25-Jun-2018 - Prellis Biologics , a San Francisco-based 3D tissue printing company, announced that it has reached record speed and resolution in the quest to print human tissue with viable capillaries, bringing the goal of printing human replacement organs closer to reality. "A major goal in tissue engineering ...