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A Novel High-Throughput Screening Platform Reveals an Optimized Cytokine Formulation for Human Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Expansion.

Tarunina M, Hernandez D, Kronsteiner-Dobramysl B, Pratt P, Watson T, Hua P, Gullo F, van der Garde M, Zhang Y, Hook L, Choo Y, Watt SM

Stem Cells Development (2016) 15;25(22):1709-1720
2017-01-17T14:23:59+00:00February 16th, 2016|Scientific Publications|

Plasticell appoints Dr Aaron T. T. Chuang as Chief Scientific Officer

Plasticell, the regenerative medicine company utilising its award-winning combinatorial technologies for stem cell research and in developing cell therapies, has recruited Dr Aaron Chuang to its executive management team in the role of Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). Prior to this appointment, Dr Chuang served as Research Director at the Regenerative Medicine unit of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where he worked for over [...]

2021-05-28T22:15:01+01:00June 15th, 2015|Press Releases|

Plasticell wins Innovate UK funding for £1.6 million cord blood stem cell manufacturing project

Plasticell has announced that Innovate UK has made a further investment in a therapeutic programme utilising CombiCult®, the high throughput stem cell technology designed to solve bottlenecks in regenerative medicine development Innovate UK will provide a grant of approximately 1.3 million GBP to a research consortium led by Plasticell for a project entitled ‘Ex-vivo expansion of cord blood and bone [...]

2021-05-28T22:19:38+01:00February 5th, 2015|Press Releases|

Peer-reviewed scientific publication highlighting CombiCult® technology demonstrates power of massively parallel stem cell differentiation

Plasticell Limited announced today the publication of peer-reviewed scientific research that demonstrates how the company’s proprietary ‘Combinatorial Cell Culture™‘ (CombiCult®) technology allows scientists to perform and compare 10,000 embryonic stem cell differentiation experiments in parallel. The individual experiments would have required around 200 years to complete back-to-back. The paper entitled ‘Directed differentiation of embryonic stem cells using a bead-based combinatorial [...]

2021-05-28T22:26:50+01:00September 25th, 2014|Press Releases|

Directed Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells Using a Bead-Based Combinatorial Screening Method

Marina Tarunina, Diana Hernandez, Christopher J. Johnson, Stanislav Rybtsov, Vidya Ramathas, Mylvaganam Jeyakumar, Thomas Watson, Lilian Hook, Alexander Medvinsky, Chris Mason, Yen Choo

PLOS ONE (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104301
2017-01-17T14:21:55+00:00September 1st, 2014|Scientific Publications|

Plasticell spin-out, Progenitor Labs, named a Finalist for the 2014 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award

Progenitor Labs, the biotech company developing small molecule drugs to regenerate organs of the body, announced today it has been selected a Red Herring Top 100 Europe Finalist, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the European business region. The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds in [...]

2021-06-01T11:03:05+01:00March 25th, 2014|Press Releases|

Plasticell signs deal with JCR Pharmaceuticals to use CombiCult® stem cell technology in Japan

Plasticell, the biotechnology company specializing in stem cell differentiation, has today announced that it has signed a collaboration agreement with JCR Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. of Ashiya, Hyogo Pref., Japan, to discover custom stem cell culture media using its award-winning combinatorial stem cell technology, CombiCult®. Under the terms of the agreement, Plasticell will use its stem cell expertise to work with [...]

2021-06-01T11:05:18+01:00February 24th, 2014|Press Releases|