Elodie is waiting for you on the first floor at Nutr’event 2019! HCS Pharma stand is n° D6/2, on Clubster NHL pavilion. She will be glad to discuss with you about: our in vitro tests for the objectivation of your claims on human cells (e.g. nutraceutical, dermocosmetic claims) our innovative Read more…
With more than 25 countries represented, NutrEvent is THE place to be for business and innovation in Food, Nutrition and Health. It will take place next week in Rennes congress centre (Couvent des Jacobins), on the 22nd and 22rd of October. Our stand will be on Eurasanté Pavilion (Level 1 Read more…
Last week we were glad to attend the kick-off meeting of MIMLIVEROnChip, funded by the french National Agency for Research (ANR). It was held in UTC Compiègne, and the project is coordinated by Pr Cecile Legallais (BIOMÉCANIQUE ET BIOINGÉNIERIE (BMBI Laboratory) – UMR CNRS 7338). This project aims at developing Read more…
Last week we were glad to attend TERMIS-EU workshop in Nantes, dealing with 3D bioprinting in cancer research. There we presented 3 posters – that you can find on our website! – about BIOMIMESYS® product range, about iPSC-derived hepatocytes in BIOMIMESYS® Liver, and about BIOMIMESYS® for organ-on-chip systems… Moreover, we Read more…
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is known as a molecular network of macromolecules present in all solid tissues (Figure 1), which plays an important role in the growth, migration and differentiation of cells. This ECM is part of a complex and plastic microenvironment in health and disease: its composition and physical Read more…
We were invited at the workshop organized by SMILL-E (Seeding Microsystems in Medecine in Lille – European-Japanese Technologies against Cancer) and Yncrea during MedFit event last week. This great workshop was about Digital and Micro systems for LifeTECH. Elodie was there to talk about innovative technologies for the screening of Read more…
Elodie, Véronique et Océane ont profité d’un moment très sympathique – et ensoleillé – lors du barbecue du parc Eurasanté ce midi… Merci à tous, et bon week-end 🙂
Last week we were pleased to attend the founding congress of STCM (Société de Toxicologie Cellularie et Moléculaire), which was held in FIAP Jean Monnet (Paris). The topic was “Toxicology towards the 3rd dimension“. With a wide variety of talks from academic laboratories and from the industry, the content was Read more…
The founding congress of the french STCM (Société de Toxicologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire) will take place in Paris at the end of this week (13th-14th June, 2019). The theme of this meeting will be “Toxicology towards the 3rd dimension“. We are looking forward to attending this congress, and to becoming Read more…
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a three-dimensional macromolecular network composed of structural proteins (collagens, elastin), adhesion/signalling proteins (fibronectin, laminins), different proteoglycans, glycoproteins and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). GAGs are structurally complex, but their structure is simply made up of repeating disaccharide building blocks composed of alternating uronic acid and hexosamine units. GAGs Read more…
The 16th SFBMEC congress was held last week in Reims: Elodie and Zied attended the meeting to be aware of the last trends in extracellular matrix (ECM) research and industry and medical applications. And they were not disappointed! After a first touching lecture in memoriam of the late Ladislas Robert Read more…
Our study director Elodie really enjoyed Vitafoods last week in Geneva, and the welcome she had on the different booths she visited along the three days! The show was very impressive, with a wide variety of exhibitors (more than 1.000 companies) and more than 20.000 visitors! Elodie spent much time Read more…
Last week HCS Pharma team enjoyed Forum Labo Paris! We enjoyed it twofold because : we won our booth on the Lab’StartUp Village, in the heart of the fair. It gave us the opportunity to present our BIOMIMESYS® products! we won a price for our amazing photo of liver cells… Read more…
Next week HCS Pharma will be present both at Forum Labo Paris (26th-28th March ) and at SCMC congress in Lille (28-29th March)! In Forum Labo we will have our own stand in the Lab’StartUp Village (stand G11), thanks to the organizers for selecting BIOMIMESYS® Brain for the fair! We Read more…
BIOMIMESYS® Oncology is mostly composed of hyaluronic acid (HA), biofunctionnalized with undenaturated collagen I. HA, by interacting with its binding proteins (CD44, RHAMM, ICAM-1), is an active participant in inflammatory, angiogenic, fibrotic and cancer-promoting processes (Figure 1). We are currently looking at the effect of different elastic moduli of BIOMIMESYS® Read more…
HCS Pharma is one of the winner of the Lab’StartUp village, organized by Forum Labo! As such, we have won a stand in the heart of the forum (March 26-28, 2019)… Thanks a lot to the committee for evaluating our application to this prize, and for selecting our new product Read more…
Extracellular matrix (ECM) is known to have an influence on physiological processes and on tumour progression: ECM properties (composition, stiffness) modulate cell proliferation, migration, invasion and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). For example, EMT is inhibited by laminin-rich environment whereas it is promoted in fibronectin-rich ECM (Chen et al 2013. Differentiation 86, Read more…
Large number of visitors came to Cosmet’agora last week to discover the last innovations in cosmetic formulation. It was a great opportunity to discuss with leader companies developing active ingredients and to feel emerging trends in the cosmetic market: microbiota balance preservation and chronobiology in particular. Our fully automatic wound Read more…
Our study directors Elodie and Pierre-Jean enjoyed the last edition of Health Ingredients Europe, which took place in Frankfurt (Germany) from the 27th to the 28th of November 2018. For their first time in HIE, they appreciated the organization and size of the salon, as well as the networking opportunities Read more…
HCS Pharma team enjoyed attending BioFit 2018 and hosted events in Lille last week! Our business developer Nathalie had many fruitful BtoB meetings along the convention, and our study director Elodie could meet lots of people interested in our imaging technology and BIOMIMESYS products while on HCS pharma booth (D4/2) Read more…
Our study directors Elodie and Pierre-Jean will attend “HI Europe” in Frankfurt next week. We cordially invite you to discuss with them, they will be happy to present our imaging services related to nutraceutical testing! We are equipped to test from one to thousands of ingredients on any of our state-of-the-art Read more…
In this article, researchers from Sorbonne University (Paris, France) proposed an explanation for the patterns followed by breast cancer cells when seeded in BIOMIMESYS, i.e. spherical aggregates. Usually, mathematical models dealing with the formation of patterns by cells in the extracellular matrix do not take into account the chemical environmental Read more…
Last week we attended ELRIG UK Drug Discovery meeting in ExCeL London, and it was a great pleasure for us to present our poster about neurotoxicity testing using HCS there. Many interesting posters were displayed in the vendor area (see below), allowing exciting scientific discussions between the sessions! We enjoyed Read more…