Wellington, Sept 30 NZPA - Listed fisher Sanford says it wants to take over the Skeggs family's Pacifica Seafoods to obtain more mussel farming and processing capacity.

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.