Wellington, Feb 12 NZPA - The Government is handing biotech entrepreneur Living Cell Technologies (LCT) over $4 million to boost its work on transplanting pig tissues into people suffering from type-1 diabetes.

Wellington, Feb 10 NZPA - Biotech entrepreneur Living Cell Technologies (LCT) says it has traded some of its cells from its quarantine herd of New Zealand pigs for a 10 percent stake in a US-based wound healing company.

Wellington, Dec 10 NZPA - Australia's decision today to lift its ban on implanting animal tissues in humans may cost New Zealand a share of its cutting-edge research into using pig cells, says a company doing trials here.

Wellington, June 17 NZPA - Auckland-based biotechnology company Living Cell Technologies is to open a $2.5 million high-tech pig breeding facility for up to 50 animals in Invercargill next month.

Wellington, Dec 11 NZPA - Auckland-based biotech entrepreneur Living Cell Technologies (LCT) claims that rat studies show brain cells taken from pigs and wrapped in seaweed gel may be useful to combat Parkinson's disease.

Wellington, June 3 NZPA - Auckland-based Living Cell Technologies said today it had become the first New Zealand company to list on the United States over-the-counter OTCQX market for non-US companies.