POSTS TAGGED AS cell culture

Controlling Cellular Organization in 3D Printing

Controlling cellular organization in bioprinting
Bioengineers at the University of Connecticut (and collaborators) present “a rapid, simple, and cost-effective approach is [MORE]

Small Molecule Cocktail to Protect Stem Cells

Small-Molecule Cocktail Protects Stem Cells From Stress
“Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have devised a four-part small-molecule cocktail that [MORE]

Reverting Cancer Cells to Stem Cell State

Brain cancer stem cells forming spheres on DN gel and SOX2 marker
Japanese scientists have developed a hydrogel—named DN for double [MORE]

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]