Stem Cell Innovations and Twente University to Evaluate Bone Forming Capacity of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell
Stem Cell Innovations, Inc. announced today that the Company has initiated a collaboration with the University of Twente (the Netherlands) to explore the bone forming properties of PluriCells.
Under the material transfer agreement, the University of Twente will get access to Stem Cell Innovations (SCI) proprietary human pluripotent stem cell technology and know-how. In return SCI will receive a nonexclusive license to intellectual property generated with the PluriCells.
Stem Cell Innovations recently disclosed it has produced multiple lines of human pluripotent stem cells. These PluriCell lines can be efficiently cultured in tissue culture plates without the use of feeder layers and can be efficiently differentiated into multiple cell-types, having the potential to aid in drug discovery and development.
Additional information is available at www.stemcellinnovations.com .
Contact Stem Cell Innovations:
Dr. James H. Kelly, +1 281-679-7900
or
Ivo Piest, +31 71 711 8010 (Europe)

































October 5th, 2006 at 8:38 am
I see this work with adult stem cells as very promising and exciting. However, one way to take it forward is to transfer cytoplasm of embryonic stem cell lines into adult stem cells. This, at least hypothetically would endow the adult stem cell with higher capability of self renewal, without needed to create new embryonic stem cell lines.
Phillip Collas published a paper on this concept in Reprod Biomed Online. 2006 Jun;12(6):762-70. However, different new things can be added besides cytoplasm of ES cells to increase the pluripotency…for example inhibitors of dna methyltransferase such as valproic acid.
I will write about this on a website, if anyone is interested at http://www.stemcellpatents.com
All the best
Dr Zhaohui Zhong