Tag: stemcells
Bayer is going all in on next-gen stem cell biotech BlueRock, buying out Versant and founders for $600M
| Endpoints News
After holding a ringside seat watching the growing team at BlueRock build up an advanced preclinical set of regenerative stem cell projects in the pipeline, Bayer wants to own it all. Bayer execs struck a deal to buy out the 60% of the shares it didn’t already own, paying $240 million in cash and setting […]
Are Stem Cells The Future Of Stroke Treatment?
| Forbes
In 2016, a 45-year-old road construction crew manager and former athlete named Sharon Thomas suffered an ischemic stroke so debilitating that her husband was told to seek long-term care for her in a nursing home. Sharon was unable to move or communicate. Her husband, John, was informed she would never talk, walk or care for herself again. But as Sharon […]