News: Healthcare / Life Sciences

• 2012/10/02 Merck Millipore Obtains Global Licensing Agreement for induced Pluripotent Stem(iPS) Cell Patent Technology with iPS Academia Japan, Inc.

  

  Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck and iPS Academia Japan, Inc. (Kyoto, Japan) announced on October 2nd a global licensing agreement for AJ’s induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell patent portfolio. The... read more

• 2012/06/18 Japanese Stem Cell Scientist Yamanaka Wins Big Technology Prize

  

  Japanese stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka and U.S.-Finnish software engineer Linus Torvalds, who created the Linux open source operating system, on Wednesday won a 1.2-million-euro technology prize in Finland.... read more

• 2012/06/18 Japanese Scientists See New Hope for Restoring Vision With Stem Cell Help

  

  Human-derived stem cells can spontaneously form the tissue that develops into the part of the eye that allows us to see, according to a study published by Cell Press in the 5th anniversary issue of the journal Cell Stem... read more

• 2012/03/01 Clinical Test for Heart Muscle Sheet to Begin

  

  Japanese medical equipment maker Terumo is planning to carry out the world's first clinical test with cell sheets that restore weakened heart muscles. read more

• 2012/02/28 Berlin Scientists Develop Cheap Anti-Malaria Drug

  

  Malaria kills more than a million people worldwide every year. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute and the Free University in Berlin have found a way to extract artemisinin, one of the most effective anti-malaria... read more

• 2012/02/23 Team improves Parkinson's disease symptoms in monkeys using stem cells

  A team of researchers said Tuesday it has been successful in improving the symptoms of Parkinson's disease in monkeys through the use of human embryonic stem cells to create nerve cells that produce dopamine, a... read more

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