Stem cell

Bio-Rad Expands Its Cell Biology Portfolio With High Performance Flow Cytometer

February 8, 2016

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO) and (NYSE: BIO.B) and Propel Labs today announced that Bio-Rad has acquired a high performance analytical flow cytometer platform from Propel Labs that will enable advanced and novice users to perform [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...]

Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope Of Precision Therapy For Blindness

February 7, 2016

Skin cells from a patient with X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa were transformed into induced pluripotent stem cells and the blindness-causing point mutation in the RPGR gene was corrected using CRISPR/Cas9 (Image credit: Vinit Mahajan) A [more...]

Embryonic Stem Cells Controlled With Light

January 1, 2016

Stem cell colonies starting to transform into neurons under optical control. ( Image Credit: Image courtesy of University of California – San Francisco) UC San Francisco researchers have for the first time developed a method to [more...]

Using Microfluidic Devices to Sort Stem Cells

November 11, 2015

An overview of the process. After the cell sample is pumped through the device, the sorted single cells are collected at the outlet and cultured in a low serum media to promote differentiation. While there are no cures for neurological [more...]

Holographic Imaging For Rapidly sorting Stem Cells, Cancer Cells

October 11, 2015

MIT scientists created these 3-D images of living cells based on measurements of their index of refraction. Different colors represent different indices of refraction, which correlate with the cells’ density, allowing for cells to be [more...]

A Fast Cell Sorter Shrinks to Cell Phone Size

September 22, 2015

Drawing of blood components being separated by sound waves (Image Image: Tony Jun Huang/Penn State) Commercial fluorescence activated cell sorters have been highly successful in the past 40 years at rapidly and accurately aiding medical [more...]

Scientists Thick Cell Mechanics Are More Complex Than Previously Thought

September 6, 2015

Confocal microscopy images of fibroblast cells of connective tissue. Cells were grown under controlled conditions into particular shapes using square or round islands 30-45µm in size to which cells were attached. The actin cytoskeleton of [more...]

Fight Neurodegenerative Diseases using Stem Cells and Microfluidics

June 28, 2015

Screenshot from BellBrook Lab BellBrook Labs, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently awarded federal funding to develop a microscale system to accelerate discovery of more effective drugs for [more...]

The Anatomy of Cancer

June 21, 2015

Breast Cancer Stem Cells (Image Credit: University of Michigan) , Adopted from TumorGen MDx One in two men and one in three women will be diagnosed with cancer. But what is cancer? Cancer is a set of complex diseases. The origins of [more...]

Mechanically Stimulating Stem Cells

April 4, 2015

Diagram of inertial microfluidic separation, developed with Professor J. Han at MIT and SMART, for sorting mesenchymal (bone marrow-derived) stem cells by cell diameter. Illustration adapted from the 2014 PNAS article, “Multivariate [more...]

Stem Cells from Wisdom Teeth Can Be Transformed into Corneal Cells

March 17, 2015

Repairing the cornea: Currently the only stem-cell-based therapy for the eye that has been proven to work in clinical trials The cornea transparent ‘window’ on the front of the eye that allows the light to enter. Stem cells from the [more...]

Novel Microfluidic Device Allows Electroporation of Stem Cells During Differentiation

January 20, 2015

Photo credit: Prof. Horacio D. Espinosa and Prof. John A. Kessler at Northwestern University, USA. Electroporation is a powerful technique in molecular biology. By using an electrical pulse to create a temporary nanopore in a cell [more...]