Scientists at Definiens in Munich, Germany, for example, analyze what the company calls tissue phenomics, or information about a tissue sample's make-up, such as cell size, shape, the stains that they absorb, and which cells contact each other.
THE company whose tissue brand "pops up one at a time," as the old ad slogan proclaimed, is popping up on a leading social networking site.
The company's tissue cultures produce only small amounts of silk -- the experiments reported in Science generated only half an ounce.
And, says Jeremy Sugarman, director of the Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities at Duke, "You'd have to be kind of dubious about a company buying tissue off an individual -- and wonder how well your privacy would be protected".
Her cofounder Tamara Lucero-Rajaram has an MD from Northwestern and a MBA from MIT — her last company involved tissue engineering.
He said that, like many of his colleagues, he had avoided CryoLife tissues after it was reported in March that the company's tissues caused half of all serious infections reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Food and Drug Administration completed an inspection this month related to the suspension, and the company resumed tissue-segment processing on Oct. 8 at its Shrewsbury, N.J., plant.
The Food and Drug Administration in August ordered the recall of much of the company's human tissue processed after Oct. 3, 2001, because the company could not ensure that the tissue had been processed free of bacterial and fungal contamination.
A13 Tissue Company Gets Go-Ahead Federal regulators have agreed to allow CryoLife Inc. to resume limited distribution of human tissue for transplants in cases where patients have no other medical options.
Carries as baggage: Being a registered lobbyist, currently for a health care company specializing in tissue regeneration technology, at a time when Mr. Obama has pledged to minimize the role of lobbyists in his administration.
For now, Mr. Hawthorne said, the company was storing tissue from cats and dogs, for a fee, so that owners could try to have their pets cloned in the future.
