Stem Cell Culture: is the roots from which different cell lineages arise, and they exist in multiple forms. Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are pluripotent, meaning they can differentiate into every cell type in the body.
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Precision medicine and next-generation sequencing – Two terms characterized by a highly dynamic nature, strong innovations and a bright future. Both merged together will exert a decisiv...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed an advanced assay to qualify FBS for use with ESCs. This assay is designed to sustain undifferentiated ES cells while maintaining karyotype integr...
Immunohistochemistry protocols, which utilize antibodies to visualize proteins in tissue sections, have many steps that need optimized to prevent non-specific background effects, artifacts, o...
DATE: April 17, 2018TIME: 8:00AM PST, 11:00AM ESTRecently, much research has focused on obtaining 3D brain organoids in an attempt to better recapitulate brain development and function...
Historically single cell isolation techniques suffered from poor efficiency, low recovery and difficult automation, among other limitations. This presentation will highlight cellenONE, a piez...
DATE: March 28, 2018TIME: 10:00am PDT, 01:00pm EDTPrimary cells are derived from various tissues typically via dissection, enzymatic dissociation, and subsequent culture in media specif...
DATE: March 22, 2018TIME: 09:00am PST, 12:00pm ESTGlioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain cancer, with nearly universal recurrence after treatment. GBMs are highly heter...
Biomedical research depends on the use of model systems to explore basic biology, probe disease mechanisms, and conduct drug discovery and development. However, results from such systems are...
DATE: February 22, 2018TIME: 09:00am PST, 12:00pm EST, 06:00pm CEST(Europe)Colorectal cancer (CRC) develops during a multi-step process from small lesions of the intestinal epithelium....
The capacity to generate disease-relevant cell populations from human pluripotent stem cells has tremendous potential for shedding light on human disease mechanisms. I will discuss basic prin...
My talk shall encompass how the stem cell research field has evolved from embryonic stem cells to adult stem cells and currently induced pluripotent stem cells with special reference to the f...
The use of pluripotent stem cells is dramatically altering the R&D landscape, providing new insights into both the basic biology of disease progression and novel cell types for pharmaceut...
DATE: November 16, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ETThe wide use of 2D monolayer cultures for cancer drug discovery reflects the technical ease of implementation for drug screening, and t...
DATE: November 14, 2017TIME: 10:00am PST, 1:00pm ESTSuccessful tumor outgrowth requires the coordination of a variety of cell intrinsic and cell extrinsic signaling events. These events...