POSTS TAGGED AS cell culture

Biopolymer Hydrogel in Probing Micromechanics

Biopolymer Hydrogel in Probing Micromechanics
Biophysicists at the University of Exeter UK reported: “we investigate this question using gelatin as a [MORE]

A Serotonin-Sensing Ingestible

Ingestible capsule that could help demystify the gut-brain axis
With funding from the NSF, University of Maryland electrical engineers have developed [MORE]

Implantable Cell Factories Produce Insulin

MIT developing living drug factories
This piece describes how MIT engineers have taken liver cells, converted them to insulin producing cells [MORE]

Pain-Killing Nerve Transplants

Pain killing neurons from stem cells
“To make the pain-killing neurons, we [at the University of Sydney, Australia] take human stem [MORE]

Drug Delivery via Red Blood Cells

Functionalized red blood cells for drug delivery
“[R]esearchers at McMaster University in Canada have developed a way of emptying red blood [MORE]

Making Organoids More Complex

Organoid models
Creating functional organoids from iPSCs is a step toward growing full sized functional transplantable organs.  But thus far, organoids [MORE]

Are Brain Organoids Accurate Models?

Human brain organoid
“. . . [A] stem cell biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, and his team demonstrate [MORE]

Growing Neurons on Nanotube Films

Neurons on carbon nanotubes
In trying to mimic natural neuron networks, Italian researchers found that the size of the spaces between [MORE]

Urine Test for Bladder Cancer

Continuous culture
From a collaboration between cancer researchers at Georgetown University and Fudan University, this piece explains how a “conditional reprogramming” [MORE]

Evolution of 3D Cell Culture

Microfluidics chip
Microfluidics turns 3D cell cultures into physiological systems, thus body-on-a-chip technology.  As one authority put it: “you could put [MORE]

Using Microgels to Maintain Cell Viability

Encapsulating cells in microgels
Keeping stem cells alive after being injected into a body has been a problem because the immune [MORE]

Making Closer Contact between Sensors and Cells

Floating and flexible cellular sensor
Tissue culture researchers at Purdue University are using an ultra-buoyant polymer scaffold with electrophysiological sensors to [MORE]

Gluing Stem Cells

Welding stem cells
In an article titled “Artificial Cell Membrane Binding Thrombin Constructs Drive in situ hydrogel formation,” cell biologists at [MORE]

Growing Mesenchymal Progenitors without Animal Derived Compounds

Mesenchymal progenitors
Human mesenchymal stem cells are rare and difficult to expand in culture, but they have the greatest capability of [MORE]