ACell

ACell

Acell Incorporated is a Jessup, Maryland-based biotechnology company. They work in regenerative medicine, in which they own several valuable extracellular matrix patents.[1] They develop, manufacture and market products for medical and veterinary applications.[2] The company is founded by Alan R. Spievack, a former associate professor at Harvard Medical School and currently run by Jim Defrancesco.[3]

Their use of porcine cellular structure, called MatriStem, as a scaffold for human tissue regeneration was named the "medical breakthrough of the year by Esquire.[4] The use of pig bladder ground up into "magical pixie dust" to regrow Spievak's brother's finger received considerable mainstream coverage.[5][6] Ken Muneoka of Tulane University, who works with ACell's scientific advisors on US-government funded investigations into regenerative medicine, said that the news should be viewed with caution because it was not a controlled study.[4]

References

  1. ^ "ACell wins extracellular matrix patent battle initiated by Cook Biotech and Purdue.". BIOTECH Patent News (August, 2006). 2006-08-01. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-19724797_ITM. Retrieved 2008-05-01. 
  2. ^ "Acell Inc. completes $6M round of financing". The Daily Record. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BDRB&d_place=BDRB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=101863234D7723EB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2008-05-01. 
  3. ^ "Reborn, ACell enters medical wound healing". Maryland Gazette. http://www.gazette.net/stories/111006/businew181519_31945.shtml. Retrieved 2008-05-01. 
  4. ^ a b "No. 3: Medical Breakthrough of the Year". Esquire. http://www.esquire.com/features/esquire-100/pigfinger1007-2. Retrieved 2008-05-01. 
  5. ^ "Man regrew finger - with pig powder?". New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/04/30/2008-04-30_man_regrew_finger__with_pig_powder.html. Retrieved 2008-05-01. 
  6. ^ Price, Matthew (2008-04-30). "The man who grew a finger". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7354458.stm. Retrieved 2008-05-01. 

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