Pharming concludes license agreement with Advanced Cell Technology

Company further strengthens transgenic technology platform

03-Mar-2008 - Pharming Group NV announced that it has concluded a license agreement with Advanced Cell Technology Inc to obtain exclusive rights on patents in the field of transgenic technology, to which it already had non-exclusive rights. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. These patents ...

Advanced Cell Technology Announces Creation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Without the Destruction of Embryos

Breakthrough Approach Improves Efficiency to Levels Reported in the Conventional Stem Cell Derivation Techniques

14-Jan-2008 - Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. together with colleagues announced the development of five human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines without the destruction of embryos. These new results have the potential to end the ethical debate surrounding the use of embryos to derive stem cells. In fact, the NIH ...

Precursor Cells Generated From Human Embryonic Stem Cells Show Ability to Repair Vascular Damage in Animals

New, scalable population of hemangioblast cells halves the death rate following heart attack and repairs ischemic limbs and damaged vasculature

09-May-2007 - Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. reported for the first time that hemangioblast precursor cells derived from human embryonic stem (hES) cells can be used to achieve vascular repair. The research, which appears in the Nature Methods, by Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) and its collaborators, describes ...

Advanced Cell Technology's Ability to Rescue Vision in Blind Rats

07-Mar-2007 - Advanced Cell Technology, Inc.'s ability to rescue vision in blind rats was noted in Scientific American's March 2007 issue. The full text of the article, which notes Advanced Cell's ability to "coax embryonic stem cells to turn into transplantable retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) tissue," comes ...

Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Gives Old Animals Youthful Immune Cells

Cloned Stem Cells Show Important Advantage Over Adult Stem Cells

01-Jul-2005 - Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. and its collaborators reported the long-term transplantation of clone-derived stem cells in an animal model of aging. Cells generated by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) offer the potential for treatment of a wide range of degenerative diseases. The research, ...

First derivation of human embryonic stem cells without exposure to cell feeders

11-Mar-2005 - A.C.T. Holdings and Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (ACT) reported the first derivation of human embryonic stem cells in completely feeder-layer-free and serum-free conditions. The research, which appears online in the journal The Lancet, by ACT and its collaborators, describes a system for ...