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 [...]

Plasticell, the biotechnology company specialising in high throughput technologies for directed stem cell differentiation, today announced that patents for its combinatorial cell culture platform technology, CombiCult™, have been granted in the USA and Japan. Patents covering CombiCult™ have now been issued in Europe, USA, Japan, Australia and Singapore. CombiCult™ breaks the major bottleneck in stem cell research and development programmes [...]

Plasticell, the biotechnology company specialising in high throughput technologies for directed stem cell differentiation, has announced that the Technology Strategy Board has funded a research consortium comprising of Plasticell, Pfizer (Neusentis) and the University of Sheffield, led by Cellzome. The project will develop methods of characterizing stem cells through protein fingerprints predictive of changes in stem cell behaviour. The Technology [...]

Plasticell, the biotechnology company specialising in high throughput technologies for directed stem cell differentiation, has announced the successful completion of a collaboration with Stemnion, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA), a US biotechnology company focused on the applications of stem cells derived from human placentas. Plasticell used its flagship technology CombiCult™ to discover multiple novel, serum-free protocols that direct the differentiation of Stemnion’s [...]

Plasticell’s high throughput screen for stem cell differentiation joins list of the most significant technology products developed globally in the last 49 years Plasticell, the biotechnology company specialising in high throughput technologies for directed stem cell differentiation, has won the prestigious R&D 100 Award for its CombiCult™v2.0 system. The CombiCult™ platform is a high-throughput combinatorial screening technology that allows scientists [...]

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 [...]