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Sernova Corp T.SVA

Alternate Symbol(s):  SEOVF

Sernova Corp. is a Canada-based clinical-stage biotechnology company, which is developing therapeutic cell technologies for chronic diseases, including insulin-dependent diabetes, thyroid disease, and blood disorders that include hemophilia A. The Company is focused on developing a functional cure for insulin-dependent diabetes with its therapeutic cell technology, the Cell Pouch System, a novel implantable and scalable medical device with immune protected therapeutic cells. The Cell Pouch is a scalable, implantable medical device. The Cell Pouch is designed to create a vascularized organ-like environment for the transplantation and engraftment of therapeutic cells. Its regenerative medicine therapeutic approach is to provide cell therapies where the cells, transplanted within an organ-like vascularized implantable device, the Cell Pouch, generates proteins, hormones or factors released into the bloodstream for treatment of diseases requiring replacement of these molecules in the body.


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Post by RichyRich$on Mar 26, 2016 12:35pm
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Competition is Fierce ...

Competition is Fierce ...

Not sure if this is considered competition... but it would be the next best thing to the Cell Pouch.  This invention is wild... and show's how hard researchers are competing.  In this Patch from North Carolina researchers, the Insulin Beta Cells are actually housed on the outer area of the patch linked under the skin through microneedle amplifiers.  So this technique prevents immune attack against the beta cells because the immune system only sees the microneedles.  Again... any diabetic would rather have an implant... but this inventions is still astonishing!  And the next best thing.  I can see Big Pharma pushing this harder because they would make more money off the patches.  They won't last more than a day or so.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-created-a-painless-patch-that-can-automatically-control-diabetes

The new patch works by linking microneedles up to live, cultured beta cells. If that doesn't sound too fun, don't worry, the needles are each roughly the size of an eyelash, which the scientists say means they don't hurt when they're applied.

Those microneedles poke into capillaries and provide a link between the beta cells and a patient's blood stream, and the team has developed something called 'glucose-signal amplifiers', which respond to rising blood sugar levels and communicate that message instantly back to the beta cells.

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