Cell Therapy

Cell size and cell-cycle states play key decision-making roles in HIV

December 29, 2018

Thanks to the development of antiretroviral drugs, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is considered a manageable chronic disease today. However, if left undiagnosed or untreated, HIV can develop into AIDS (acquired immune deficiency [more...]

Ultrafast Compression Offers New Way to Get Macromolecules into Cells

May 6, 2018

By treating living cells like tiny absorbent sponges, researchers have developed a potentially new way to introduce molecules and therapeutic genes into human cells. The technique first compresses cells in a microfluidic device by [more...]

New Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy

July 14, 2016

A photo of three microfluidic devices filled with food color dyes. The device, about the size of a credit card, is designed to help scientists narrow in on safe ranges of electric fields that might be used to noninvasively treat breast, [more...]

New cell-sorting Technology Could Improve The Development Of Cell Therapies

March 21, 2016

Progressively spaced micropillars in the new magnetic ratcheting system for sorting cells (Credit: UCLA) Researchers at UCLA have developed a new way to separate and organize cells suspended in fluid samples by their subtle biochemical [more...]

NanoCellect Closes $1.75M Series A Financing Round to Begin Production of the WOLF Cell Sorter

February 10, 2016

Wolf Cell Sorter Instrument (Image Credit: NanoCellect Biomedical Inc, Click to enlarge image) San Diego, CA—Feb 4th, 2016—NanoCellect Biomedical, a developer of affordable and accessible flow cytometry and cell sorting technology for [more...]

Muscles on-a-Chip Provide Insight Into Cardiac Stem Cell Therapies

February 8, 2016

A two cell microtissue consisting of a mouse embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte and a mouse neonatal cardiomyocyte. The lower panel shows the traction forces produced when the two cells contract; the stronger, neonatal [more...]

Insulin-Producing Pancreatic Cells Created from Human Skin Cells

January 7, 2016

Functioning human pancreatic cells after they’ve been transplanted into a mouse. [Image credit: Saiyong Zhu] Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have successfully converted human [more...]