While scientists have previously had success in 3D printing a range of
human stem cell cultures developed from bone marrow or skin cells, a team from Scotland's Heriot - Watt University claims to be the first to print the more delicate, yet more flexible, human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).
Not exact matches
In both cases individual members may exercise some dominance over others, in particular by altering the patterns guiding further growth and development, but the social coordination
stems from basic patterns embodied in the genetic makeup of the plant
cells and in the laws and traditions of
human culture.
When Gupta's team added salinomycin to
cultured human breast - cancer
cells, it was about 100 times as effective at killing the cancer
stem cells as popular anti-cancer drug, paclitaxel.
Using
human fetal «mini-brains» grown in 3 - D
cultures, scientists determined that a specific protein produced by the Zika virus changes the properties of neural
stem cells in the developing brain of an infected fetus, potentially causing microcephaly in newborns (Ki - Jun Yoon, abstract 103.06, see attached summary).
In a series of experiments, the researchers first identified a set of 19 transcription factors that were expressed at significantly greater levels in
cultured human glioblastoma
stem cells capable of tumor propagation than in differentiated tumor
cells.
Confocal microscopy of
human neural
stem cell culture infected with Zika virus (red).
The team used
human embryonic
stem cells — which can transform into any
cell of the body — and
cultured them in a mixture of chemicals to grow
human brain
cells.
«We also think this method could be applied towards the development of
culture conditions during differentiation of
human stem cells.
2 - D
cell -
culture and mouse experiments also provided key evidence of the virus's modus operandi; although the rodent brain doesn't harbor the full contingent of
human neural
stem cells, it has blood vessels and immune - system components that organoids lack.
Finally, they demonstrated that zebrafish OPCs differentiate into mature oligodendrocytes when
cultured together with
human motor neurons, differentiated from induced pluripotent
stem cells.
The work was led by Dan S. Kaufman, a hematologist, and James A. Thomson, the first scientist to grow
human embryonic
stem cells in
culture.
Prior research with
cultured tissue had shown that a mix of chemicals could change bone marrow
stem cells from mice to those resembling brain
cells, but when a team led by neurologist Lorraine Iacovitti of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia tried the same brew on
human cells, the number altered was modest.
To replicate these
cell culture results, Rani used
human stem cells to grow neurons into what is called a mini brain.
«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.
Scientists at the Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology at the University of Bonn applied a recent development in
stem cell research to tackle this limitation: they grew three - dimensional organoids in the
cell culture dish, the structure of which is incredibly similar to that of the
human brain.
By
culturing human stem cells in this manner and treating them with specific signaling molecules, the investigators were able to guide
cells through key processes involved in the development of the
human inner ear.
Although a clause in the law that funds NIH prevents the agency from funding research that would harm or destroy an embryo, a lawyer at the Department of Health and
Human Services ruled in 1999 that because
stem cells — which can grow ad infinitum in
culture — are not themselves embryos, the NIH could fund work with
cells that were derived by privately funded researchers or researchers overseas.
«The resulting hydrogel composed of physically self - assembled CarHC polymers exhibited a rapid gel - sol transition on light exposure, which enabled the facile release / recovery of 3T3 fibroblasts and
human mesenchymal
stem cells (hMSCs) from 3D
cultures while maintaining their viability.»
RIKEN researchers have taken up this challenge, and the work published in
Cell Reports details how sequentially applying several signaling molecules to three - dimensional
cultures of
human embryotic
stem cells prompts the
cells to differentiate into functioning cerebellar neurons that self - organize to form the proper dorsal / ventral patterning and multi-layer structure found in the natural developing cerebellum.
Ralph Brinster, part of the team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia that first
cultured sperm
stem cells in the lab, has written that
culturing stem cells from
human sperm is not far off —
humans and mice, like other mammals, he says, require similar growth factors.
Scientists at the University of Luxembourg have succeeded in turning
human stem cells derived from skin samples into tiny, 3 - D, brain - like
cultures that behave very similarly to
cells in the
human midbrain.
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.
Surgeons report success in first
human bone growth procedure using fat
stem cells — with no
culturing necessary
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 l
Stem identified a recurrent anomaly in the genome of
human embryonic
stem cells left in culture for too l
stem 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.
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.
Morphological and immunocytochemical characteristics indicate the yield of early progenitors and represent a quality control for
human mesenchymal
stem cell culturing.
It facilitates self - renewal of both pluripotent
human embryonic
stem cells and induced pluripotent
stem cells in a chemically defined, feeder - free and animal - protein free
cell culture system.
Bartosz Balana (Ravens, TUD)-- «Influence of
culture conditions on differentiation and bioelectrical properties of
human mesenchymal
stem cells» (2005)
Stem cell culturing of
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Differences between in vitro viability and differentiation and in vivo bone - forming efficacy of
human mesenchymal
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This enables robust
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culturing human ES and iPS
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Differential osteogenicity of multiple donor - derived
human mesenchymal
stem cells and osteoblasts in monolayer, scaffold - based 3D
culture and in vivo.
All the hES and
human induced pluripotent
stem cell lines were confirmed to be genetically stable and pluripotent in in vivo and in vitro assays after extensive
culturing on the new substrata.
The DEF - CS system is a robust
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human induced pluripotent
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Three - dimensional neuroepithelial
culture from
human embryonic
stem cells and its use for quantitative conversion to retinal pigment epithelium.
Gage's team used
human pluripotent
stem cells to develop brain organoids, which were grown in
culture for 40 to 50 days.
Small, transient populations of these totipotent
cells are found in both mouse and
human cultured stem cells.
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One Standardized Differentiation Procedure Robustly Generates Homogenous Hepatocyte
Cultures Displaying Metabolic Diversity from a Large Panel of
Human Pluripotent
Stem Cells.
Researchers discover that the inhibition of a lysine methyltransferase allows for the long -
culture and amplification of
human muscle
stem cells
We use 3D
stem cell («organoid»)
cultures from mice and
humans to examine occurrence, level and molecular causes of CIN in cancer (Video 2).
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).
The study used three
cell types:
human motor neurons derived from induced pluripotent
stem cells, rat cortical
cultures, and
human breast cancer
cells.
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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.