Big business is high on the Honolulu method
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ProBio America Inc. will provide $1 million to the Honolulu, Hawaii laboratory where University of Hawaii researchers cloned 50 mice from adult cells. The company, a US subsidiary of the Australian company ProBio Limited, has financed the lab to advance animal cloning and freeze-dried sperm technology. In return for its financial outlay, ProBio will get access to international licensing rights for future biomedical or pharmaceutical products developed by the University of Hawaii researchers. Through this arrangement, the university and researcher Ryuzo Yanagimachi will receive as much as 50% of net proceeds for 20 years, including 8% of net sales and 25% of licensing revenue and payouts for milestones such as use of their cloning technology for commercial useful animals like cows.
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ProBio America grants $1mil to Hawaii lab that cloned 50 mice from adult cells
Publication Name: Nature Biotechnology
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1087-0156
Year: 1998
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A freeze-dryer and a fertile imagination
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Mouse sperm has proved to be much more resilient than formerly imagined. Authors Wakayama and Yanagimuchi reported that they freeze-dried mouse sperm, kept it at room temperature for at least three months, reconstituted them with water, and then using intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) obtain normal embryos and live-born mice. This technique works most effectively when the tail of the sperm is sheared off and has already been applied to human infertility problems where the male suffers from severe oligospermia of has immotile sperm.
Publication Name: Nature Biotechnology
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1087-0156
Year: 1998
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GlaxoSmithKline presents a biotech facade
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GlaxoSmithKline announced that it will restructure its research and development divisions.
Publication Name: Nature Biotechnology
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1087-0156
Year: 2001
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