International scientists may have overcome an key obstacle in xenotransplantation, successfully transplanting a heart from a pig into a baboon […]
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Parkinson’s treatment trial completed
New Zealand company Living Cell Technologies (LCT) have released the results of a small trial of a new Parkinson’s Disease […]
Continue readingNZBio: The potential of living cell therapies
NZBio 2011 saw an update from Professor Bob Elliot of Living Cell Technologies, which is undertaking trials in New Zealand […]
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Continue readingAnimal to human transplants get the Aussie go-ahead
Australia has lifted the ban on research involving animal to human transplants. In 2004, NHMRC recommended that there should be […]
Continue readingFirst implant of DIABACELL® successful
Yesterday, Living Cell Technologies announced the successful first implant of its DIABECELL® in Auckland. This is the first of 8 […]
Continue readingXenotransplantation and the LCT trials in New Zealand
UPDATE: Living Cell Technologies, a New Zealand-based biotech firm, has just announced that it is commencing trials on a potentially […]
Continue readingEncapsulated porcine islet cell transplantation – an evolving therapy for the treatment of type 1 diabetes
A new paper has just been published in Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, which reviews the use of encapsulated porcine […]
Continue readingNew Zealand, Russia leading in xenotransplantation trials
There’s always a certain cringe factor when we start talking about taking tissue or even whole organs from animals and […]
Continue readingOkay given to transplant pig cells into humans
New Zealand biotech, Living Cell Technologies, firm has been given the green light to inject pig cells into humans as […]
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