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Bit.bio

Index Bit.bio

bit.bio is a synthetic biology company focused on human cells that is advancing regenerative medicine and coding cells for novel cures. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 28 relations: Acute liver failure, ARCH Venture Partners, Autoimmune disease, Bayer, Board of directors, Cambridge, Cell therapy, Cellular differentiation, Chair (officer), Charles River Laboratories, Drug discovery, Elpis (mythology), Foresite Capital, Gregory Winter, Harold M. Weintraub, Hermann Hauser, List of human cell types, Medicine, Parkinson's disease, Privately held company, Synthetic biology, T cell, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, The Michael J. Fox Foundation, Transcription factor, Transdifferentiation, United Kingdom, University of Cambridge.

  2. Medicine
  3. Regenerative biomedicine

Acute liver failure

Acute liver failure is the appearance of severe complications rapidly after the first signs (such as jaundice) of liver disease, and indicates that the liver has sustained severe damage (loss of function of 80–90% of liver cells).

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ARCH Venture Partners

ARCH Venture Partners (ARCH) is an American venture capital firm based in Chicago.

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Autoimmune disease

An autoimmune disease is a condition that results from an anomalous response of the adaptive immune system, wherein it mistakenly targets and attacks healthy, functioning parts of the body as if they were foreign organisms.

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Bayer

Bayer AG (English:, commonly pronounced) is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies and biomedical companies in the world.

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Board of directors

A board of directors is an executive committee that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Cell therapy

Cell therapy (also called cellular therapy, cell transplantation, or cytotherapy) is a therapy in which viable cells are injected, grafted or implanted into a patient in order to effectuate a medicinal effect, for example, by transplanting T-cells capable of fighting cancer cells via cell-mediated immunity in the course of immunotherapy, or grafting stem cells to regenerate diseased tissues. Bit.bio and cell therapy are cell biology and stem cells.

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Cellular differentiation

Cellular differentiation is the process in which a stem cell changes from one type to a differentiated one.

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Charles River Laboratories

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc., is an American pharmaceutical company specializing in a variety of preclinical and clinical laboratory, gene therapy and cell therapy services for the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industries.

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Drug discovery

In the fields of medicine, biotechnology and pharmacology, drug discovery is the process by which new candidate medications are discovered.

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Elpis (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Elpis (ἐλπίς) is the spirit of hope.

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Foresite Capital

Foresite Capital (Foresite) is an American, multi-stage healthcare and life sciences investment firm headquartered in Los Angeles, and with offices in The San Francisco Bay Area and New York City.

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Gregory Winter

Sir Gregory Paul Winter (born 14 April 1951) is a Nobel Prize-winning English molecular biologist best known for his work on the therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies.

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Harold M. Weintraub

Harold M. "Hal" Weintraub was an American scientist who lived from 1945 until his death in 1995 from an aggressive brain tumor.

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Hermann Hauser

Hermann Maria Hauser, KBE, FRS, FREng, FInstP, CPhys (born 1948) is an Austrian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and inventor who is primarily associated with the Cambridge technology community in England.

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List of human cell types

The list of human cell types provides an enumeration and description of the various specialized cells found within the human body, highlighting their distinct functions, characteristics, and contributions to overall physiological processes.

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Medicine

Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.

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Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor and non-motor systems of the body.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Synthetic biology

Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a multidisciplinary field of science that focuses on living systems and organisms, and it applies engineering principles to develop new biological parts, devices, and systems or to redesign existing systems found in nature.

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T cell

T cells are one of the important types of white blood cells of the immune system and play a central role in the adaptive immune response.

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Takeda Pharmaceutical Company

The is a Japanese multinational pharmaceutical company.

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The Michael J. Fox Foundation

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research is a US non-profit organization founded in 2000 by Canadian-American actor Michael J. Fox to find a cure for Parkinson's disease.

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Transcription factor

In molecular biology, a transcription factor (TF) (or sequence-specific DNA-binding factor) is a protein that controls the rate of transcription of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA, by binding to a specific DNA sequence.

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Transdifferentiation

Transdifferentiation, also known as lineage reprogramming, is the process in which one mature somatic cell is transformed into another mature somatic cell without undergoing an intermediate pluripotent state or progenitor cell type.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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See also

Medicine

Regenerative biomedicine

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit.bio