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.