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Wow, this is a big moment for the stem cell community. We officially crossed 300,000 stem cell publications released to PubMed.gov.
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and NIH that comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature.[1] It is the largest and comprehensive global database that exists for scientific publications. [Read more…]
HOLLISTON, Mass., Aug. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Biostage Inc., (Nasdaq: BSTG), (“Biostage” or the “Company”), a biotechnology company developing bioengineered organ implants to treat cancer, congenital abnormalities and other life-threatening conditions of the esophagus, bronchus and trachea, today announced the use of Biostage’s Cellspan Esophageal Implant product candidate in a patient at a major U.S. hospital via an FDA-approved single-use expanded access application.
Dr. Itzchak Angel, CEO of the Israeli stem cell company, Accellta, has more than 30 years of experience guiding the business development efforts of new and established companies across the Israeli pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Angel was formerly Vice President of R&D at Proteologics Ltd. and at D-Pharm Biopharmaceuticals. Before those positions, he served as the head of pharmacology in Synthelabo (now Sanofi) where he launched blockbuster drugs such as Xatral, Ambien and Mizollen into the marketplace. [Read more…]
This is an exciting addition to my recent interview with Accellta’s CEO, Dr. Itzchak Angel, who highlighted Accellta’s unique technologies for enabling large scale growth of cells in suspension. This interview features insights from Eran Cohen, Accellta’s head of business development and intellectual property (IP) officer.
Since the discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells in 2006, a great deal of basic research has been done to understand how to produce, manipulate, and utilize the stem cell type. In addition to this important basic research, a great deal of applied (“translational”) results has been done with the cell type. Induced pluripotent stem cells (also called iPS cells or iPSCs) are revolutionizing regenerative medicine because they represent a potential route for producing patient-specific stem cells for research or clinical use.
In the future, iPS cells will facilitate progress in personalized medicine by allowing a patient to use his or her own cells. In addition, iPSCs also show great promise in other areas, such as phamaco-toxicological screening, by allowing disease modeling and safety assessment of potential new drugs under development, in short, facilitating the study of a “disease in a dish.”
