POSTS TAGGED AS stem cells

Eppendorf’s Mini Bioreactor

Eppendorf AG’s DASbox® Mini Bioreactor System
While this piece is an advertisement for a commercial product, it merits special mention for [MORE]

Implantable 3D Printed Cartilage Cells

Formation of Blood Vessels
Using a 3-D printer, tissue engineers at Chalmers University (Gothenburg, Sweden) have constructed human cartilage cells on [MORE]

Cell Culture in “Spaghetti”

Stem Cells Cultivated in Spaghetti Polymer
Meanwhile, about a 150 miles south of Gothenburg, tissue engineers at Lund University have shown [MORE]

Do Stem Cells Look Different?

RU High Resolution Stem Cell
Here’s an interesting proposition—stem cells, as those used for bone marrow transplantation—change shape depending on their [MORE]

Growing Mouse Embryos from Stem Cells

Mouse
For the first time, researchers at the University of Cambridge have created mouse embryo from stem cells in the lab. [MORE]

Nanofiber Matrix for Culturing Human Stem Cells

Three Dimensional Stem Cell Growth
Most tissue culturing of pluripotent stem cells is done in petri dishes which distorts the shape [MORE]

Stanford’s “Nanostraws” for Cell Sampling

Nicholas Melosh Developed Non-Destructive Cell Sampling System
To find out what chemical reactions are going on within a cell, the most [MORE]

Shooting in Stem Cells with a “Skin Gun”

RenovaCare Skin Gun
Remember Cornell University’s “gene gun” in 1987 that used an air pistol to shoot metal particles coated with [MORE]

Engineered Thyroid Cells

Thyroid Gland Cells
Hypo or hyperthyroidism, goiter or cancer are among the thyroid conditions that afflict about 10% of the US [MORE]

Growing Functional Stomach Tissue in the Lab

Tissue-Engineered Human Stomach Tissues
Quoting directly: “Scientists [at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital] have used pluripotent stem cells to generate human stomach tissues [MORE]

“Living Bandage” of Stem Cells for Knee Injury

Knee Anatomy
Meniscus tears are the bane of sport players from school field games to the big leagues. Moreover, these injuries [MORE]

Regenerating the Epicardium of the Human Heart

Heart Cells from Stem Cells Lance Lian
Researchers at Penn State University have discovered that by chemically manipulating the Wnt signaling [MORE]

Regenerating Vision

Transplanted Stem Cells in Rodent
Degeneration of photoreceptor cells in the eye is a major cause of age-related blindness, which is [MORE]

A Synthetic Cardiac Stem Cell

Synthetic Cardiac Stem Cells
University collaborators in North Carolina and Henan, China have created a synthetic cardiac stem cell that has [MORE]