by Mark Curtis | May 27, 2015
. Welcome to your deal review for the month of April. There is no update yet on the fate of the Cellular Dynamics International/Fujifilm deal, but it appears that CDI made some effort to solicit offers from alternative bidders. Aduro made headlines, though, closing a...
by Mark Curtis | May 25, 2015
. Welcome to your Update from the Clinic for the month of April. Mesenchymal stem cells took a hit as Athersys’ MultiStem came up short, missing its primary endpoint in a Phase 2 study investigating the cells for ischemic stroke. Juno Therapeutics continues to turn...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | May 21, 2015
. By now, many of you will have heard of Fujifilm’s USD$307 million purchase of Cellullar Dynamics International (CDI). This may seem like a major entry into the regenerative medicine (RM) space for a company that’s better known for its imaging technologies than...
by Mark Curtis | Apr 28, 2015
. After several years of intense systematic research, and toiling with a differentiation protocol, Dr. Doug Melton, and his lab at Harvard University, finally decoded the sequence of genes that needs to be activated to yield mature, insulin-producing beta cells in...
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