TOKYO and MADISON, Wis., March 30, 2015 — FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation (President: Shigehiro Nakajima) (“Fujifilm”) and Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. (CEO: Robert Palay) (“CDI”), a leading developer and manufacturer of fully functioning human cells in industrial quantities, announced that the two companies have entered into a agreement whereby Fujifilm will acquire CDI via an all-cash tender offer to be followed by a second step merger. [Read more…]
BioInformant iPS Cell Data Featured on Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine
BioInformant is excited to share that our induced pluripotent stem cell industry analytics have been featured on the “Signals Blog,” published by the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM). CCRM is a Canadian, not-for-profit organization supporting the development of foundational technologies that accelerate the commercialization of stem cell- and biomaterials-based products and therapies.
The post, titled Right Turn: Commercializing iPSCs – Infographics, states: “The beauty of an infographic (or two) is it speaks for itself.”
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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) News Round-Up| February 2015
“Supreme Court Rules on Stem Cells, $100 Billion Proposed for International Stem Cell Collaboration, Japan to Launch iPSC Therapy Center, and More”
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are a rapidly evolving area of stem cell science. Since the discovery of the cell type in 2006, there have been several important market events, including the first ever clinical trial in humans which launched in August of 2013 to evaluate the capacity of iPSC-derived cell sheets for their ability to restore vision in patients with wet-type macular degeneration. More recently, the Supreme Court rejected the right of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) to control patents related to iPSC derivation in a landmark patent decision issued in February 2015. [Read more…]
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iSPC) News Round-Up| January 2015
The induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) industry is a rapidly evolving area. Since the discovery of iPSCs in 2006, there have been a number of important market events that have occurred, including the first ever clinical trial in humans that was initiated in August 2013 to investigate iPSC-derived cell sheets for restoring vision, as well as large funding awards, major initial public offerings (IPOs), critical patent challenges, and more. [Read more…]
iPSC Market: 3 Major Market Forces (and Why You Should Care) | Infographic
The induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) market first emerged in 2006, when iPSC technology was pioneered by Shinya Yamanaka’s lab at Kyoto University in Japan. The shocking discovery that the introduction of four transcription factors into adult cells could convert them into pluripotent stem cells sent waves of excitement throughout the scientific community.
This landmark event came to represent one of the greatest stem cell research discoveries of all time and was memorialized in 2012, when Dr. Yamanaka and Sir John Gurdon were awarded the Nobel Prize “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.”
iPSC technology has since revolutionized how stem cells are derived, differentiated, and acquired in industrial quantities. It has also dramatically affected our understanding of how human cells and organisms develop.
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