Vitro Diagnostics Inc. (fka VODG)

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VODG...Aubrey, Inc.....

A 9/15/2010 article published in ePlasty (plastic and reconstructive surgery journal) contains an interesting piece of information. It appears that VODG's stem cells and culture media were used by Aubrey, Inc for some research/testing on one of the configurations of its AWBAT Plus product.

The lead author/researcher on the article is Aubrey Woodroof (CEO of Aubrey, Inc). Some biographical information about Woodroof from an Aubrey press release.....

Dr. Aubrey Woodroof invented Biobrane® in 1978, an innovative product which revolutionized the burn care industry and helped burn survivors around the world to heal better and faster. Biobrane® maintains a key role in burn management to this day, over 30 years later. At the end of 2007, Woodroof came out of retirement to form Aubrey Inc. and to create AWBAT, the next generation of advanced wound care technology. Aubrey Inc. is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aubrey-inc-receives-fda-clearance-for-awbat-plus-82914507.html

AWBAT Plus received FDA approval in January 2010. I picked out a few of the relevant pieces of information from the ePlasty article.....

1) Title: The Search for an Ideal Temporary Skin Substitute: AWBAT Plus, a Combination Product Wound Dressing Medical Device

2) Human mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), derived from human cord blood, were purchased as a viable culture (Vitro Biopharma, Golden, CO) and were maintained in low serum mesenchymal stem cell culture medium without antibiotics or antimycotic. To test the growth on the AWBAT-S Plus (nylon mesh side up) 5.0 × 105 MSC were plated onto the material in the bottom of a 24 well plate.

3) Of interest is the finding shown here that human mesenchymal stem cells grow well on AWBAT Plus. This finding shows that in the future, stem cells themselves or stem cells differentiated to different kinds of skin cells could readily be used with AWBAT Plus or be already attached to AWBAT Plus to serve as a living “skin” replacement.

ePlasty article.....

http://www.eplasty.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=479&catid=15&Itemid=116

Aubrey, Inc. website.....

http://www.aubreyinc.com/index.html