Sentences with phrase «for stem cell culture»

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«This research enables us to get one step closer to the optimal culture conditions for muscle stem cells.»

«If we win, the entire regulatory structure for autologous cell processing, with or without culture, will be rewritten such that any physician using good practices and treating patients responsibly can use stem cells as part of his or her medical practice,» he says.

Also, researchers could carefully select which blood types to culture with each batch of stem cells, creating stockpiles of needed blood products for people with extremely rare blood types whose blood cell makeup makes it challenging to find good blood matches for transfusions because they would reject most other types of blood.

The students used a 3 - D printer to design a smaller and more cost - efficient bioreactor — a miniaturized culture device where neural stems cells are grown and eventually become small laboratory brains for research.

«This pilot study showed that the culture system not only allowed for efficient propagation of sperm stem cells, but also eliminated ALL cells,» said Sadri - Ardekani.

The former Speaker — now a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination — talked to DISCOVER in 2006 about evolution, stem cells, Washington's two cultures, and why kids should be paid to take science and math.

Around the same time, Yoshiki Sasai of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, cultured the first brain organoids, starting not with adult stem cells but with embryonic stem cells.

That's an important lesson, Tolar says; it suggests that future attempts to correct genetic skin diseases should focus on culture conditions that nourish these stem cells, and potentially even target them for modification.

The team then cultured the cells for several months in a bath of growth - promoting proteins, trying to get the cells to reverse course and become more like stem cells.

Engineering a megakaryocyte niche (a special environment in which stem cells live and renew) that supports the growth of hematopoietic stem cells in culture, is the next step for the researchers.

«Our group pioneered the development of cell culture technology for harvesting large numbers of stem cells from human bone marrow and human umbilical cord blood,» Dr. Yeh said, noting that stem cells from these two sources are abundant and can be guided into different types of cells using tissue engineering.

«Our results suggest that megakaryocytes might be used clinically to facilitate adult stem cell regeneration and to expand cultured cells for adult stem cell transplants,» says Meng Zhao, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at Stowers and lead author on the study.

She thinks that data from embryos cultured for nearly two weeks in the laboratory will provide more useful information than Egli's stem cell studies.

Haruko Obokata of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan, and colleagues at other Japanese institutions and at Harvard Medical School in Boston reported that simply subjecting blood cells from newborn mice to a moderately acidic environment for 25 minutes and then tweaking culture conditions could generate pluripotent stem cells capable of developing into nearly all of a body's cell types.

But they are «potentially deleterious,» says co-author Anirban Maitra, a pathologist at Johns Hopkins, and underline the need for close monitoring of stem cell cultures as they age.

Expanding from their previous studies with mice, the researchers first established that under specific conditions, culturing human embryonic stem cells with fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) leads to neural differentiation particular to the midbrain / hindbrain region — the location of the cerebellum — within three weeks, and the expression of markers for the cerebellar plate neuroepithelium — the part of the developing nervous system specific for the cerebellum — within five.

When BMP protein was added for three days in human pluripotent stem cell - derived gut tube cultures, it induced a posterior HOX code.

Other stem cells in the body, such as liver and stomach cells, have been examined for their ability to culture usable iPS cells.

His support for adult stem cell research, his sponsorship of the bi-annual Vatican Stem Cell Conferences, and his leadership in the field of renewable energy led to his appointment by the Vatican as Scientific Advisor to the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture of the Catholic Church and, most recently, as The Pontifical Council Admonitor and Senior Advisor in regards to Regenerative Medicstem cell research, his sponsorship of the bi-annual Vatican Stem Cell Conferences, and his leadership in the field of renewable energy led to his appointment by the Vatican as Scientific Advisor to the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture of the Catholic Church and, most recently, as The Pontifical Council Admonitor and Senior Advisor in regards to Regenerative Mediccell research, his sponsorship of the bi-annual Vatican Stem Cell Conferences, and his leadership in the field of renewable energy led to his appointment by the Vatican as Scientific Advisor to the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture of the Catholic Church and, most recently, as The Pontifical Council Admonitor and Senior Advisor in regards to Regenerative MedicStem Cell Conferences, and his leadership in the field of renewable energy led to his appointment by the Vatican as Scientific Advisor to the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture of the Catholic Church and, most recently, as The Pontifical Council Admonitor and Senior Advisor in regards to Regenerative MedicCell Conferences, and his leadership in the field of renewable energy led to his appointment by the Vatican as Scientific Advisor to the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture of the Catholic Church and, most recently, as The Pontifical Council Admonitor and Senior Advisor in regards to Regenerative Medicine.

In work published on 24 November in the journal Nature biotechnology, Anselme Perrier's team at I - Stem identified a recurrent anomaly in the genome of human embryonic stem cells left in culture for too lStem identified a recurrent anomaly in the genome of human embryonic stem cells left in culture for too lstem cells left in culture for too long.

«The region selective - state of these stem cells is entirely novel for laboratory - cultured stem cells and offers important insight into how human stem cells might be differentiated into derivatives that give rise to a wide range of tissues and organs,» says Jun Wu, a postdoctoral researcher in Izpisua Belmonte's lab and first author of the new paper.

Researchers at Emory and Georgia Tech have developed a method for Cheap Oakleys purifying cardiac muscle cells from stem cell cultures using molecular beacons.

They then inserted the spatially oriented human stem cells (human rsPSCs) into specific regions of partially dissected mouse embryos and cultured them in a dish for 36 hours.

Mouse embryonic stem cells stained for key pluripotency markersGRAZIANO MARTELLO Combining computer science algorithms with biological data has enabled researchers to create a model of the minimal number of factors necessary for mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to self - renew in culture.

For the first time, trophoblast stem cells have been isolated and cultured by researchers in Japan.

Morphological and immunocytochemical characteristics indicate the yield of early progenitors and represent a quality control for human mesenchymal stem cell culturing.

In three sessions, the participants will discuss ways for establishing robust stem cell culture protocols, process strategies for obtaining commercial cell quantities, and challenges related to product purity.

This information could then be used to prompt embryonic stem cells to differentiate in the culture dish into neurons for potential use in cell - replacement therapy.

The DEF - CS system is a robust culture system for efficient expansion of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells in a feeder - free and defined environment.

Three - dimensional neuroepithelial culture from human embryonic stem cells and its use for quantitative conversion to retinal pigment epithelium.

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BioLamina develops, manufactures and distributes premium cell culture reagents intended for culturing of primary cells, such as stem cells

Embryonic stem cells, discovered in the Department of Genetics in the 1980s (for which Sir Martin Evans was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007), have become an important tool for developmental biology, understanding disease, and in regenerative medicine due to the ability to give rise to all cell types in culture.

Gage's team used human pluripotent stem cells to develop brain organoids, which were grown in culture for 40 to 50 days.

Human recombinant laminin isoforms are developed for defined and xeno - free stem cell culturing and primary cell cultures.

StemFit Basic02 is a xeno - free, defined medium for human pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) culture that offers an effective solution for regenerative medicine research.

Researchers discover that the inhibition of a lysine methyltransferase allows for the long - culture and amplification of human muscle stem cells

Since human embryonic stem cells grow in an adherent culture system, for cells being reprogrammed this «new culture system» is an adherent culture system (to try and mimic the conditions the embryonic stem cells want to be happy).

A future aspect of our mouse work is directed towards use of ES cell differentiation in culture as a model for epigenetic decisions and stem cell manipulations.

The portfolio includes U.S. and foreign patents and applications directed to culture, expansion and scale - up of pluripotent stem cells and cell types derived therefrom, various differentiation processes for production of mesendoderm, definitive endoderm, PEC - 01, and endocrine precursors, as well as claims directed to the Company's Encaptra ® macro-encapsulation device platform.

PromoKine is a brand of PromoCell, a premier manufacturer of cell culture products which is especially recognized for its broad range of human primary cells, stem cells, and blood cells as well as optimized cell culture media.

The latest round of CIRM grants, totaling more than $ 50 million, will finance construction of shared research laboratories at 17 academic and non-profit institutions for the culture of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), particularly those that fall outside federal guidelines.

Furthermore, we found that the stem - like and EMT phenotypes observed in the cycling hypoxia - selected subpopulation are not reversible, because we obtained the same molecular profile from this subpopulation by culturing them as spherical cultures for several months in normal oxygen content and culturing them as adherent cells (Figure S2 in Additional file 2).

Limbal epithelial stem cells sheets cultured on amniotic membranes for treatment of limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD).

The researchers cultured human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to create three - dimensional mini-brains for study.

For instance, MEF cells are usually made of fibroblasts from the mouse embryos at embryonic day 13.5 and only cells at early passages (p2 to p3) are used as feeders for derivation and culture of embryonic stem (ES) and iPS celFor instance, MEF cells are usually made of fibroblasts from the mouse embryos at embryonic day 13.5 and only cells at early passages (p2 to p3) are used as feeders for derivation and culture of embryonic stem (ES) and iPS celfor derivation and culture of embryonic stem (ES) and iPS cells.

Ultimately, we use all this information to establish innovative culture techniques for generating unlimited neural stem cell sources for the derivation of specific types of clinically relevant neuronal or glial cells, for their use in disease modelling and drug discovery platforms, and towards refining their efficacy for future cell replacement - based therapy.

Our improved IVM culture conditions may be used for obtaining mature oocytes for clinical purposes and / or for derivation of embryonic stem cells following parthenogenesis or nuclear transfer.

For the past three years, McDevitt and his team have been working to culture viable human V2a interneurons from pluripotent stem cells.

While the culture and climate for stem - cell therapies is improving, Roop said, more research, like Colorado State University's stem - cell work on dogs and horses, is needed to ensure safety and learn long - term effects of stem - cell therapies.