Cell Culture – News and Features

Luna Innovations and Virginia Commonwealth University researchers show that carbon nanospheres are able to block allergic response in human cell culture experiments and mice.

Using a three-part screening process scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a gene that is made inappropriately in about a third of all breast cancers.

Researchers led by Salk Institute demonstrates that injection of a single cell taken from cultured LA7 cells into mouse breast tissue can seed a new mammary carcinoma.

UCLA’s researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine were able to reprogram normal tissue cells into cells with the same properties as embryonic stem cells.

Funding will support shared research laboratories and expanded facilities for training in human embryonic stem cell research.

The grant provided by California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will be used to upgrade the current core facility and to support the establishment of a new satellite facility.

Three rats paralyzed due to spinal ischemia gained normal ambulatory function six weeks after having received human spinal stem cells developed by Neuralstem.

StemLifeLine recieves approval from the California Department of Health Services to engage in the operation of a tissue bank in accordance with the Health and Safety Code.

The license covers the marketing, sale and distribution of adult Arctic ground squirrel neural stem cells for research use.

PerkinElmer becomes the exclusive provider of the Axxam Photina® photoprotein technology to the drug discovery market under the agreement.