POSTS TAGGED AS cell culture

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]

New Stem Cell Scaffold for CNS Tissue Transplants

 
Inorganic nanoscaffold for stem cell therapy
Rutgers’s engineers have created a biodegradable, inorganic hybrid (BHI) scaffold that can deliver stem cells, [MORE]

iPSC Transplanted into Parkinson’s Patient

Neurons
Last October, Japanese neuroscientists implanted induced pluripotent stem cells into a Parkinson’s patient.  As described: “Kyoto University stem cell researcher [MORE]

Cambridge University’s “Tubistor” for 3-D Cell Culturing

Tubistor Constant monitoring of cell culture
Rather than putting electrodes into cell masses to monitor their electrical signaling, University of Cambridge [MORE]

Speeding Up Stem Cell Growth

Speeding up stem cell growth
Before stem cell therapies can become more robust, cell culture has to be finely tuned so [MORE]

Turbulence Propels Stem Cells into Platelets

Turbulence activates platelets
In this case, the “martini” is both shaken and stirred.  Japanese stem cell scientists that “turbulence” in a [MORE]

Photoinduced Cycloisomerization

 
Synthesizing carbocyclic 5-8-5 fused-ring-systems
Florida State University biochemists have used UV light to synthesize the carbocyclic ring that should be useful in [MORE]

Automated Cell Culture

eVOLVER
With a relatively inexpensive set up, a bioengineer at Rice University built an automated cell culture prototype that controlled timing, temperature [MORE]

Functional Neurons from T-cells without Induced Pluripotency

Neurons from human immune cells
From Stanford University comes this news: “This new study demonstrates a breakthrough technique that can produce as [MORE]

3D Printed Sugar Tissue Platforms

3D printed bunny of sugar and red dye
One of the compelling uses of 3-D printing is fabricating tissue scaffolds for [MORE]

“A Self-Condensation Cell Culture”

Self-condensation cell culture
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Yokohama City Universityreport a new process called “self-condensation cell culture.”  Quoting directly, “We [MORE]

Regenerating Blood Vessels from Stem Cells

Peripheral Vascular Disease
Critical limb ischemia is an advanced stage of peripheral artery disease, which arises from atherosclerosis. In the worst [MORE]

Stem Cells to Kidney Organoids

 
Robots Generating Kidney Organoids from Stem Cells
University of Washington engineers and clinicians have developed “a robotic system . . . [MORE]

Stem Cells for Neck and Back Pain

Spinal Cord Anatomy
For elders, deteriorating spinal discs are literally a pain in the neck and back. For the medical insurance [MORE]