New demerged business called ‘Progenitor Labs’ Plasticell Ltd, the biotechnology company developing high throughput stem cell technologies, has announced today that following its recent £3.5m financing, it has undergone a strategic re-structuring to enable the Company to focus on its award winning CombiCult™ technology for stem cell differentiation. Consequently, Plasticell Ltd has demerged its regenerative drug discovery unit into a [...]

Capital injection to expand business development and marketing initiatives Plasticell, the biotechnology company specialising in high throughput technologies for directed stem cell differentiation, has announced it has completed a two-part equity financing, raising a total of £3.5 million from new and existing investors. The first tranche of the financing, in which £1.5 million was drawn down in April 2009, was [...]

Collaboration to produce novel turnkey solution for stem cell research Plasticell, the biotechnology company specialising in high throughput technologies for directed stem cell differentiation, has announced the signing of a collaboration agreement with Sigma-Aldrich, a leading provider of technologies and reagents to the life science research market. In the collaboration, Sigma-Aldrich will use its CompoZr® Zinc Finger Nuclease Technology to [...]

Plasticell, the biotechnology company specialising in the use of innovative high throughput technologies in stem cell research, has announced signing of a collaboration agreement with the biopharmaceutical company, UCB. Under the terms of the agreement, UCB will supply Plasticell with drug compound libraries with known biological targets. Plasticell will screen these using its award-winning CombiCult technology to discover new cell [...]

London, 12 March 2009 … Research announced today by Plasticell, a leading UK regenerative medicine biotech company, shows how embryonic stem cells can be used to discover novel small molecules capable of encouraging the body to regenerate, potentially paving the way for the development of drugs to repair organs damaged by disease or ageing. Plasticell used its proprietary technologies to [...]