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Development by New Orleans biotech company to enable studies of human fat tissue in vitroCAMBRIDGE, Mass. & NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harvard University has granted an exclusive license to biotechnology company Obatala Sciences to commercialize innovations that enable the study of human fat tissue in vitro. Harv...
/PRNewswire/ -- Obatala Sciences, a biotechnology company that manufactures stem cell and hydrogel products to enable next-generation therapeutics discovery,...
Development by New Orleans biotech company to enable studies of human fat tissue in vitro ...
Obatala Sciences, Harvard partner on human fat tissue study New Orleans-based biotechnology firm Obatala Sciences has been granted an exclusive license from Harvard University to commercialize innovations that enable the study of human fat tissue in vitro. The licensed Harvard technology, an adipose-on-a-chip, provides a method of obtaining adult-size fat tissue cells for study in vitro and enables the testing of weight loss and cancer-targeting therapeutics without the need for testing in animals, a news release said. It provides a more accurate and dynamic model of human tissue in its dise...
Marine sponges inspire the next generation of skyscrapers and bridges September 21, 2020 By Leah Burrows / SEAS Communications (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) – When we think about sponges, we tend to think of something soft and squishy. But researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are using the glassy skeletons of marine sponges as inspiration for the next generation of stronger and taller buildings, longer bridges, and lighter spacecraft. The skeleton of Euplectella aspergillum, a deep-water ...