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Stem Cells

Stem cells are undifferentiated biological cells that can differentiate into specialised cells and can divide to produce more stem cells.

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Scientists coax human stem cells to become sensory interneurons

16 January 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

A new protocol could be a step toward stem cell-based therapies to restore sensation in people who have lost feeling in parts of their body...

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Poster: Expansion of human induced pluripotent stem cells in scalable stirred suspension culture

12 January 2018 | By MilliporeSigma

Expansion of hiPSCs as aggregates in stirred suspension...

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Poster: Expansion of human induced pluripotent stem cells in scalable stirred suspension culture

12 January 2018 | By Merck

Expansion of hiPSCs as aggregates in stirred suspension...

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Functioning human muscle grown from induced pluripotent stem cells

9 January 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

First functioning human muscle grown from induced pluripotent stem cells holds promise for cellular therapies, drug discovery and studying rare diseases...

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Video: Introduction PHERAstar FSX

8 January 2018 | By BMG Labtech GmbH

Advanced high-throughput screening in a microplate reader.

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Cellular barcoding helps scientists understand the behaviour of stem cells

4 January 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Use of labelling technology in mice leads to discoveries in process of natural blood formation...

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Stem cell therapy discovery for age-related macular degeneration

3 January 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Stem cell-derived retinal cells need primary cilia to support the survival of light-sensing photoreceptors...

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Scientific article: iPSC Cells

6 December 2017 | By Merck KGaA

An entirely new area of stem cell biology was introduced by Shinya Yamanaka in 2006 when he discovered that somatic cells could revert back to pluripotent-like cells, or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).

Stem cell-derived intestine model mimics innate immune responses

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Stem cell-derived intestine model mimics innate immune responses

1 December 2017 | By Drug Target Review

A stem cell-derived in vitro model displays key small intestine characteristics including innate immune responses.

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Scientists reverse diabetes using modified blood stem cells

16 November 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Researchers have successfully reversed type 1 diabetes by infusing blood stem cells pre-treated to produce more PD-L1...

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VEGF found to prolong survival of stem cells

10 November 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

A team of researchers have developed a new technology, which is promising to understand and treat ischemic diseases...

Charles River Laboratories presents newly expanded capabilities at Neuroscience 2017

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Charles River Laboratories presents newly expanded capabilities at Neuroscience 2017

7 November 2017 | By Charles River Laboratories

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. announced that its team of neuroscience drug discovery experts is presenting 27 scientific posters, both independently and collaboratively with clients, at Neuroscience 2017, the 47th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).

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Stem cells pave the way for new treatment of diabetes

7 November 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

A new study has shown how human stem cells can produce insulin-producing cells that in the future can be transplanted into diabetes patients...

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Subset of stem cells identified as source for all cells in blood and immune systems

2 November 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Study in nonhuman primates traces regeneration of blood and immune systems to 5 percent of transplanted blood stem cells...

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Whitepaper: Automatic calculation of HeLa cell culture confluency

25 October 2017 | By Bertin Instruments

Cell confluency is a key parameter for all cell biologists as it is the beginning of all other cell culture experiment such as transfection, cell-based assays and cell culture quality control...

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