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TransCode Therapeutics Announces Closing of $1.5 Million Registered Direct Offering of Common Stock Priced At-The-Market under Nasdaq Rules

BOSTON, Feb. 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TransCode Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNAZ) (the “Company”), an RNA oncology company committed to more effectively treating cancer using RNA therapeutics, today announced the closing of its previously announced registered direct offering of 2,846,300 shares of common stock priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules at $0.527 per share for gross proceeds of $1.5 million.

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InMed Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2023 Financial Results and Provides Business Update

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InMed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“InMed” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: INM), a leader in the pharmaceutical research, development and manufacturing of rare cannabinoids and cannabinoid analogs, today announced financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 which ended December 31, 2022.

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Global Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) Industry Report 2023 …

DUBLIN, Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --The "Global Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) Industry Report - Market Size, Trends, and Forecasts, 2023" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Since the discovery of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology in 2006, significant progress has been made in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. New pathological mechanisms have been identified and explained, new drugs identified by iPSC screens are in the pipeline, and the first clinical trials employing human iPSC-derived cell types have been initiated. iPSCs can be used to explore the causes of disease onset and progression, create and test new drugs and therapies, and treat previously incurable diseases.

Today, methods of commercializing induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) include:

Since the discovery of iPSCs in 2006, it took only seven years for the first iPSC-derived cell product to be transplanted into a human patient in 2013. Since then, iPSC-derived cells have been used within a rapidly growing number of preclinical studies, physician-led studies, and clinical trials worldwide. There are also over 100 clinical trials underway that do not involve the transplant of iPSCs into humans, but rather, the creation and evaluation of iPSC lines for clinical purposes. Within these trials, iPSC lines are created from specific patient populations to determine if these cell lines could be a good model for a disease of interest.

2013 was a landmark year because it saw the first cellular therapy involving the transplant of iPSCs into humans initiated at the RIKEN Center in Kobe, Japan. Led by Dr. Masayo Takahashi, it investigated the safety of iPSC-derived cell sheets in patients with macular degeneration. In another world first, Cynata Therapeutics received approval in 2016 to launch the first formal clinical trial of an allogeneic iPSC-derived cell product (CYP-001) for the treatment of GvHD. CYP-001 is a iPSC-derived MSC product. In this historic trial, CYP-001 met its clinical endpoints and produced positive safety and efficacy data for the treatment of steroid-resistant acute GvHD.

Given this early success, Cynata is has advanced its iPSC-derived MSCs into Phase 2 trials for the severe complications associated with COVID-19, as well as GvHD and critical limb ischemia (CLI). It is also undertaking an impressive Phase 3 trial that will utilize Cynata's iPSC-derived MSC product, CYP-004, in 440 patients with osteoarthritis (OA). This trial represents the world's first Phase 3 clinical trial involving an iPSC-derived cell therapeutic product and the largest one ever completed. Not surprisingly, the Japanese behemoth FUJIFILM has been involved with the co-development and commercialization of Cynata's iPSC-derived MSCs through its 9% ownership stake in the company.

Many market competitors are also commercializing iPSC-derived products for use in drug development and discovery, disease modeling, and toxicology testing. Across the broader iPSC sector, FUJIFILM CDI (FCDI) is one of the largest and most dominant players. Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) was founded in 2004 by Dr. James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who in 2007 derived iPSC lines from human somatic cells for the first time. The feat was accomplished simultaneously by Dr. Shinya Yamanaka's lab in Japan. FUJIFILM acquired CDI in April 2015 for $307 million. Today, the combined company is the world's largest manufacturer of human cells created from iPSCs for use in research, drug discovery and regenerative medicine applications.

Another iPSC specialist is ReproCELL, a company that was established as a venture company originating from the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University in 2009. It became the first company worldwide to make iPSC products commercially available when it launched its ReproCardio product, which are human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes. Within the European market, the dominant competitors are Evotec, Ncardia, and Axol Bioscience. Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Evotec is a drug discovery alliance and development partnership company. It is developing an iPSC platform with the goal to industrialize iPSC-based drug screening as it relates to throughput, reproducibility, and robustness. Today, Evotec's infrastructure represents one of the largest and most advanced iPSC platforms globally.

Ncardia was formed through the merger of Axiogenesis and Pluriomics in 2017. Its predecessor, Axiogenesis, was founded in 2011 with an initial focus on mouse embryonic stem cell-derived cells and assays. When Yamanaka's iPSC technology became available, Axiogenesis became the first European company to license it in 2010. Today, the combined company (Ncardia) is a global authority in cardiac and neural applications of human iPSCs. Founded in 2012, Axol Bioscience is a smaller but noteworthy competitor that specializes in iPSC-derived products. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, it specializes in human cell culture, providing iPSC-derived cells and iPSC-specific cell culture products.

Of course, the world's largest research supply companies are also commercializing a diverse range of iPSC-derived products and services. Examples of these companies include Lonza, BD Biosciences, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Merck, Takara Bio, and countless others. In total, at least 80 market competitors now offer a diverse range of iPSC products, services, technologies, and therapeutics.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Report Overview

2. Introduction

3. Current Status of iPSC Industry

4. History of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs)

5. Research Publications on iPSCs

6. iPSC: Patent Landscape Analysis

7. iPSC: Clinical Trial Landscape

8. Research Funding for iPSCs

9. M&A, Collaborations & Funding Activities in iPSC Sector

10. Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: An Overview

11. Human iPSC Banking

12. Biomedical Applications of iPSCs

13. Market Overview

14. Company Profiles

Selection of Companies Mentioned

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Helocyte, Inc. Announces Positive Data from Stem Cell Transplant Donor Vaccination Trial to be presented at the 2023 Tandem Meetings, Transplantation…

Helocyte, Inc. Announces Positive Data from Stem Cell Transplant Donor Vaccination Trial to be presented at the 2023 Tandem Meetings, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Meetings of ASTCT and CIBMTR  Marketscreener.com

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Induced pluripotent stem cell technology: a decade of progress

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Since the advent of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology a decade ago, enormous progress has been made in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. Human iPSCs have been widely used for disease modelling, drug discovery and cell therapy development. Novel pathological mechanisms have been elucidated, new drugs originating from iPSC screens are in the pipeline and the first clinical trial using human iPSC-derived products has been initiated. In particular, the combination of human iPSC technology with recent developments in gene editing and 3D organoids makes iPSC-based platforms even more powerful in each area of their application, including precision medicine. In this Review, we discuss the progress in applications of iPSC technology that are particularly relevant to drug discovery and regenerative medicine, and consider the remaining challenges and the emerging opportunities in the field.

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J.C.W. is a co-founder of Stem Cell Theranostics. S.Y. is a scientific advisor of iPS Academia Japan without salary. The other authors declare no conflict of interest.

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A schematic for human iPSC-based disease modeling. Human iPSCs are derived from individual

A schematic for human iPSC-based disease modeling. Human iPSCs are derived from individual patients and differentiated into specific cell types. To develop new therapies, the resultant cells are used to observe disease-specific phenotypes and identify novel pathological mechanisms,. Human iPSC-based disease modeling with patient-specific cells now provides an exciting new approach for the development of personalized diagnosis and medicine.

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A schematic for human iPSCs-based cell therapy. Human iPSC-based cell therapy development usually

A schematic for human iPSCs-based cell therapy. Human iPSC-based cell therapy development usually includes the following steps: 1) Collect somatic cells from patients and culture somatic cells from affected patients; 2) Reprogram patient somatic cells into iPSCs; 3) Use genome editing technology or viral transduction method to repair patient iPSCs and turn them into genetically corrected iPSCs; 4) Differentiate the corrected iPSCs into desired cell types to serve as genetically matched healthy donor cells; 5) Perform quality control test for cell identity, purity, activity, and safety; and 6) Transplant the genetically matched healthy cells into patients for cell therapy.

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The discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) has made an invaluable contribution to the field of regenerative medicine, paving way for identifying the true potential of human embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Since the controversy around ethicality of ESCs continue to be debated, iPSCs have been used to circumvent the process around destruction of the human embryo. The use of iPSCs have transformed biological research, wherein increasing number of studies are documenting nuclear reprogramming strategies to make them beneficial models for drug screening as well as disease modelling. The flexibility around the use of iPSCs include compatibility to non-invasive harvesting, and ability to source from patients with rare diseases. iPSCs have been widely used in cardiac disease modelling, studying inherited arrhythmias, neural disorders including Alzheimer's disease, liver disease, and spinal cord injury. Extensive research around identifying factors that are involved in maintaining the identity of ESCs during induction of pluripotency in somatic cells is undertaken. The focus of the current review is to detail all the clinical translation research around iPSCs and the strength of its ever-growing potential in the clinical space.

Keywords: disease; drug screening; embryo; induced pluripotent stem cells; modelling.

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Showing the process of progression and generating iPSC cells. Detailed description of creating

Showing the process of progression and generating iPSC cells. Detailed description of creating iPSCs with reprogramming factors and differentiating them into a variety of cell types.

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Schematic representation on derivation and assay for human iPSCs. Detailed schematic representation of

Schematic representation on derivation and assay for human iPSCs. Detailed schematic representation of derivation of iPSC with the various assays to evaluate the developmental efficiency.

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Process of liver development and hepatic differentiation from hiPSCs. The process of isolated

Process of liver development and hepatic differentiation from hiPSCs. The process of isolated cells from patients can be cultured and reprogrammed into patient-specific hiPSCs and quick comparison from natural liver development.

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DNA microarray analysis was performed with mouse multipotent adult germline stem cells (maGSCs) and embryonic stem cells (ESCs) from different genetic backgrounds cultured under standard ESC-culture conditions and under differentiation-promoting conditions by the withdrawal of the leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and treatment with retinoic acid (RA). The analyzed undifferentiated cell lines are very similar based on their global gene expression pattern and show 97-99% identity dependent on the analyzed background. Only 621 genes are differentially expressed in cells derived from mouse 129SV-background and 72 genes show differences in expression in cells generated from transgenic Stra8-EGFP/Rosa26-LacZ-background. Both maGSCs and ESCs express the same genes involved in the regulation of pluripotency and even show no differences in the expression level of these genes. When comparing maGSCs with previously published signature genes of other pluripotent cell lines, we found that maGSCs shared a very similar gene expression pattern with embryonic germ cells (EGCs). Also after differentiation of maGSCs and ESCs the transcriptomes of the cell lines are nearly identical which suggests that both cell types differentiate spontaneously in a very similar way. This is the first study, at transcriptome level, to compare ESCs and a pluripotent cell line derived from an adult organism (maGSCs).

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Mendus AB: Mendus announces request for conversion of convertible bonds by Negma Group

Mendus AB (“Mendus” publ; IMMU.ST), a biopharmaceutical company focused on immunotherapies addressing tumor recurrence, today announced that Negma Group (“Negma”) has by notice to Mendus requested the conversion of convertible bonds that have been issued to Negma in accordance with the financing agreement announced by Mendus through press releases on 26 August and 26 October 2022.

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