ACell
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ACell, Incorporated is a Columbia, Maryland-based biotechnology company. They work in regenerative medicine, in which they own several valuable extracellular matrix patents.[1] They develop, manufacture and market products for medical and veterinary applications.[2] The company is founded by Alan R. Spievack, a former associate professor at Harvard Medical School and currently run by Jim Defrancesco.[3]
Their use of porcine cellular structure, called MatriStem, as a scaffold for human tissue regeneration was named the "medical breakthrough of the year" by Esquire.[4] The use of pig bladder ground up into "magical pixie dust" to regrow Spievak's brother's finger received considerable mainstream coverage.[5][6] Ken Muneoka of Tulane University, who works with ACell's scientific advisors on US-government funded investigations into regenerative medicine, said that the news should be viewed with caution because it was not a controlled study.[4]
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