Artecel Sciences Inc.

01 Jan 2001

• By Jeff Dvorin

If recent studies are to be believed, America's obsession with diet and exercise has done little to trim the country's collective flab. While this is hardly good news on the health care front, one company is attempting to turn at least some of that fat into therapeutic muscle. In particular, Artecel Sciences Inc. is exploring ways in which cells harvested from fat tissue can be used in a variety of medical applications, including tissue repair and hematopoietic support for bone marrow transplantation.

If recent studies are to be believed, Americans' obsession with diet and exercise has done little to trim the country's collective flab; indeed the incidence of obesity appears to be steadily rising. While this is hardly good news on the health care front, one company is attempting to turn at least some of that fat into therapeutic muscle. In particular, Artecel Sciences Inc. is exploring ways in which cells harvested from fat tissue can be used in a variety of medical applications, including tissue repair and hematopoietic support for bone marrow transplantation.

Artecel, which is only a few months old, was spun off from Zen-Bio Inc. , a four year-old company that sells fat cells (adipocytes) to pharmaceutical and biotech companies...

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