Artemis and CIBASA to market stem cell system
German-based Artemis Pharmaceuticals is to help the Centre for Applied Molecular Research Salamanca (CIBASA), a Spanish biotechnology company, to market its cancer stem cell based Oncostem technology .
CIBASA has a collection of cancer mouse models that show identical pathology to corresponding human cancers and similar responses to known therapeutic agents. These can be used to test novel cancer agents and validate their ability to treat cancer by affecting cancer stem cells, helping drug candidate testing, drug repositioning, target discovery and validation, biomarker identification and the generation of new mouse models.