Plasticell, the biotechnology company developing regenerative drugs using high throughput stem cell technologies, has announced that a further family of patents, offering additional protection of its proprietary cell culture technology, Combinatorial Cell Culture™ (CombiCult®), have been granted by the US Patent Office, European Patent Office, Australian Patent Office and Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. The newly granted patents cover the [...]

Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC), the UK’s first open innovation bioscience campus, is pleased to welcome regenerative medicine companies Plasticell Ltd and Progenitor Labs as tenants. Progenitor Labs is a drug discovery spin-off from Plasticell and recently received £4m in funding from SR One, the corporate venture arm of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Cell therapy and regenerative medicine is a focus of SBC’s [...]

EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, and Plasticell of London, UK, today announced the availability of OsteoMAX-XF™, the first fully defined, xeno-free human mesenchymal stem cell differentiation medium for the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into osteocytes. Mineralization can be detected in less than one week, whereas competing products that contain serum require approximately [...]

Investment from SR One, GlaxoSmithKline’s Corporate Venture Fund, will fund company’s programme to discover small molecule drugs that regenerate specific tissues of the body. Progenitor Labs Ltd (Progenitor) has announced that it has raised £4 million ($5.8million) in seed financing from SR One’s UK Fund. Progenitor is a pioneering regenerative medicine company that develops drugs to regenerate specific tissues of [...]

Plasticell, the UK stem cell differentiation specialist has licensed EMD Millipore, the Life Science Division of Merck KGaA, to distribute a superior, single-application osteogenic medium discovered using the award winning, massively parallel combinatorial screening system, CombiCult®. The osteogenic medium is serum- and xeno- free, more consistent and more potent than currently available formulations. Under the terms of the contract, [...]

Plasticell, the biotechnology company specialising in high throughput technologies for directed stem cell differentiation, has today announced that it has engaged Veritas Corporation of Tokyo as the exclusive distributor for all of its services and products, including CombiCult®, in Japan. CombiCult® breaks the major bottleneck in stem cell research and development programmes – the discovery of optimised stem cell differentiation [...]