CAR-T Therapy CAR-T Therapy is a form of immunotherapy that harnesses the power of the patient’s immune system to target and eliminate cancer cells. It involves ex-vivo genetic engineering of…
Read update 28th July, 2023About the conference: MPS summit The MPS summit is a small but buzzing conference, where scientists from the pharma industry, academia and microchip manufacturers gather to discuss the latest advances…
Read update 30th June, 2023About the conference : ILD Summit The ILD Summit is a niche industry dedicated conference focussed on advancing therapies for progressive fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (ILD). This year’s conference was the…
Read update 16th June, 2023Despite the common assumption that adverse drug reactions usually affect the kidney and liver, over 600 medications have been reported to induce lung toxicity.1 Due to ehri large surface area,…
Read update 18th May, 2023The lung team at Newcells Biotech have developed a Small Airway Epithelial Cell model and an FMT-assay, what are the possible applications of these models for lung research? Â Cellular lung-models…
Read update 5th May, 2023About the conference: ARVO The ARVO conference took place in the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Â With over 10 000 attendees, the venue was absolutely huge. If you…
Read updateWhy develop an RPE model? Retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells play a vital role in the retina by forming the outer blood-retinal barrier and maintaining photoreceptor and visual…
Read update 20th April, 2023One the fastest growing approaches to treat cancer is the use of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs). Since the approval of the first antibody drug conjugate in 2000,…
Read update 13th April, 2023When did you start thinking about incorporating flow into static kidney models? I have been working with static kidney models for over 30 years and started to think about…
Read update 21st March, 2023The Eurostars grant of €1.2m will support the partners, led by Gain, and includes Newcells, the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Lausanne) and the University of Helsinki. Newcells will…
Read update 27th February, 2023Fibrotic diseases, including liver fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis, and renal fibrosis, are characterized by the excessive deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM) components, leading to the formation of fibrous tissue that…
Read update 9th February, 2023What is the main advantage of having microglia in the neural retina model? First of all, incorporating microglial cells improves physiological relevance of the current iPSC-derived retinal organoid model…
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