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Indi Molecular provides PCCs for research and development in the fields for imaging agents for medical diagnostic imaging. Indi Imaging medical diagnostic research is provided to corporate partners, both as sponsored research or in partnership. Research and development using novel and custom PCCs, including PCCs that are membrane permeable, are provided for under the PCC Inside brand for uses that include antigen detection for both cell and tissue analysis, therapeutics or in vitro diagnostics.
Cyagen Biosciences is an emerging and innovative biotechnology company that specializes in custom murine model generation, DNA vector construction and viral packaging services. We also offer a comprehensive catalog of stem cell lines, cell culture reagents and growth factors. Our rapidly expanding services portfolio features VectorBuilder – an online DNA vector construction platform designed to make tedious cloning projects obsolete. Let us provide the knowledge and resources to move your project forward, and get you back to discovery!
Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is a chronic, life-threatening disease that affects millions of people worldwide. In the United States, 30,000 new cases are estimated every year with half of those cases diagnosed in young children. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the patient`s immune system goes awry and attacks and destroys the pancreatic beta cells. Beta cells are responsible for regulating blood sugar (glucose) levels by producing precise amounts of the essential hormone insulin. The discovery of injectable insulin in the 1920s changed T1D from a uniformly fatal disease with a life expectancy of months to one that could be carefully managed for decades through multiple daily blood glucose measurements and insulin injections. However, insulin injections are not a cure and patients face a lifetime of difficult disease management and serious complications including kidney failure, blindness and nerve damage. Despite nearly a century passing since the discovery of insulin, insulin injection remains the only treatment available to patients. Semma Therapeutics was founded to develop transformative therapies for patients who currently depend on insulin injections. Recent work in the laboratory of Professor Douglas Melton led to the discovery of a method to generate billions of functional, insulin-producing beta cells in the laboratory. These cells develop in islet-like clusters grown from stem cells. Initial preclinical work in animal models of diabetes has shown that transplantation of these cells are sufficient to control blood glucose levels. This breakthrough technology has been exclusively licensed to Semma Therapeutics for the development of a cell-based therapy for diabetes. Ongoing research at Semma Therapeutics is focused on combining these proprietary cells with a state-of-the-art cell delivery and immune protection strategy that can protect these cells from the patient`s immune system and allow the beta cells to function as they do in non-diabetic individuals. Implantation of the beta cell-filled device has the potential to provide a true replacement for the missing beta cells in a diabetic patient and would not require patient immunosuppression. Semma Therapeutics is working to bring this new therapeutic option to the clinic and improve the lives of patients with diabetes.
Prolong is dedicated to the global biotechnology market, and to developing relationships with companies worldwide for raw material supply, commercial development and marketing of its new wave of products - the Supergenerics.
ICON is a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. We specialise in the strategic development, management and analysis of programs that support Clinical Development - from compound selection to Phase I-IV clinical studies. In a highly fragmented industry, we are one of a small group of organisations with the capability and expertise to conduct clinical trials and development projects on either a local or global basis. We have the operational flexibility to provide development services on a stand-alone basis or as part of an integrated “full service” solution. We are also an 'end-to-end' Pharmacovigilance service provider and this includes Post Marketing Surveillance activities too.