September 21, 2021, Palo Alto, California – Koji Tanabe, Founder and CEO of I Peace, Inc., has been selected by the judges of World Biz Magazine’s annual awards to be a recipient of the “Top 100 Innovation CEO – 2021”. [Read more…]
Bio-Techne Launches ExCellerate™ iPSC Expansion Medium
A novel animal component-free medium that supports robust expansion and maintenance of human pluripotent stem cells.
Minneapolis, September 14, 2021 — Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) Bio-Techne announced the launch of a new medium for the expansion and maintenance of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for use in both research and translational workflows. The ExCellerate™ iPSC Expansion Medium is the latest addition to Bio-Techne’s comprehensive portfolio of products and services for Regenerative Medicine. It is designed to fit seamlessly into their offerings for stem cell workflows, including cell isolation, reprogramming, genome engineering, cell expansion, differentiation and characterization. [Read more…]
The Pipeline for iPSC-Derived Cell Therapeutics in 2021
Despite progress involving the use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) within disease modeling and drug discovery applications, it will be a long path to achieve the broad-scale use of iPSC-derived cell types in human patients. [Read more…]
Clean Meat Market: Stem Cell Derived “Clean Meat” Attracts Billionaires
Although not yet popular, lab-grown meat is fast becoming a real alternative to its farm-grown counterpart as billionaire entrepreneurs and industry heavyweights invest into start-ups from across the nascent field of “cellular agriculture”. Produced via stem cells derived from cows, pigs, fish, or sheep, the emerging clean meat industry has the potential to transform the global food market and create a new trillion dollar industry in the process. [Read more…]
Treefrog Therapeutics Secures $75M in Series B Financing To Advance a Pipeline of Stem Cell-Derived Cell Therapies and Deploy Proprietary C-Stem™ Technology in the USA & Japan
Frederic Desdouits, PhD, named chief executive officer. Co-founder Kevin Alessandri, PhD, relocates to Boston to drive TreeFrog Therapeutics’ expansion in the U.S.
Bordeaux, France/September 13th, 2021 – TreeFrog Therapeutics, a privately held French-based biotech startup focused on developing safe and affordable stem cell-derived cell therapies for millions of patients, today announced the successful closing of a $75 million (€64M) Series B financing round, bringing the total funding to date to $83 million (€70M). [Read more…]
