Artecel Sciences Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
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.