MiMedx (NSDQ:MDXG) announced today that its recently filed shelf registration with the SEC has become effective. Marietta, Georgia-based MiMedx last month filed the shelf registration statement on Form S-3 with the SEC with the intent to be allowed to sell up to $350 million in various types of securities over the next three years once the shelf registration […]
Regenerative Medicine
MiMedx files SEC shelf registration to sell up to $350M in securities
MiMedx (NSDQ:MDXG) announced today that it filed a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 with the SEC. Marietta, Ga.-based MiMedx, which develops AmnioFix, a micronized dehydrated human amnion/chorion membrane (dHACM) injection as regenerative medicine, will be allowed to sell up to $350 million in various types of securities over the next three years once the SEC […]
Tenaya Therapeutics prices $180M IPO for targeted therapies
Tenaya Therapeutics announced that it priced an underwritten, upsized initial public offering of common stock worth $180 million. South San Francisco–based Tenaya develops therapies for rare generic disorders and more prevalent heart conditions through gene therapy, cellular regeneration and precision medicine. The company is actively exploring different routes of administration and different infusion- and injection-based methods […]
FDA approves Stratatech’s StrataGraft skin graft
Mallinckrodt‘s (NYSE: MNK) Stratatech today received FDA approval for its StrataGraft for treating adult patients with thermal burns. The Bedminister, N.J.-based company designed StrataGraft to treat thermal burns that have intact dermal elements, or remaining deep skin layers, for which surgical intervention is clinically indicated. “Serious burns can be an incredibly difficult injury to treat and can […]
MIT, Indian researchers grow tiny brains in 3D-printed bioreactor
Scientists in Cambridge, Mass. and Chennai, India, are touting self-organizing brain tissue growth in a 3D-printed system. Published results in Biomicrofluidics highlight the work of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Indian Institute of Technology Madras scientists, who have grown small amounts of the self-organizing brain tissue, known as organoids, in a tiny 3D-printed system that […]
Magenta Therapeutics rises on Street-beating Q4
Magenta Therapeutics (NSDQ:MGTA) shares ticked up today on fourth-quarter earnings that topped the consensus forecast. The Cambridge, Mass.-based stem cell transplantation technology developer posted losses of -$18.2 million, or -38¢ per share for the three months ended Dec. 31, 2020, marking a 21.8% bottom-line gain. Get the full story at our sister site, Drug Delivery Business […]
Could this hydrogel repair a broken heart?
European researchers have developed an injectable hydrogel that could help repair and prevent further heart muscle damage after a heart attack. The therapeutic effect of multiple injections of this hydrogel into the cardiac tissue was assessed during the first preclinical study of its kind, demonstrating its efficacy for cardiac tissue remodeling following a heart attack, […]
Locate Bio lands FDA breakthrough nod for bone infection device
Regenerative medicine company Locate Bio announced today that the FDA has granted breakthrough device designation to a bone graft/antibiotic combination designed to combat chronic bone infection, also known as osteomyelitis. Osteomyelitis is a progressive, inflammatory infection of the bone, usually caused by bacteria and is estimated to account for up to 50% of all non-trauma […]
Fibralign wins CE mark for BioBridge tissue repair device
Stanford spin-out Fibralign announced that it received CE Mark approval in Europe for its BioBridge collagen matrix. Union City, Calif.-based Fibralign’s BioBridge has been designated as a Class III device with an indication for use in supporting lymphatic tissue repair and can be used after or in conjunction with surgical procedures addressing lymphedema, according to […]
Rosens Diversified is acquiring Collagen Solutions
Rosen’s Diversified today agreed to a deal to acquire the entire issued and to-be-issued ordinary share capital of Collagen Solutions (LON:COS). Rosen’s Diversified (RDI) is a Fairmont, Minn.-based food production, agrichemical and distribution company that is already Collagen Solutions’ largest shareholder, according to a news release. Collagen Solutions, which has a U.K. headquarters and operates out […]
Fibralign partners with Terumo
Stanford spin-out Fibralign announced today that it entered into a long-term distributor agreement with Terumo for the BioBridge collagen matrix. The agreement is set to see Terumo market and distribute BioBridge collagen matrix, which is used to treat and prevent secondary lymphedema, in Japan. BioBridge is a sterile, implantable, biocompatible and biodegradable surgical mesh made […]
