Cell Culture – News and Features

To accelerate cancer research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a dataset detailing the complete genetic makeup of a pancreatic cancer cell line.

Researchers developed a nasal antibody that blocks mugwort pollen, a major hay fever trigger in Europe and Central Asia. Delivered intranasally, it reduced allergic symptoms and inflammation in mice without systemic side effects.

ETH Zurich researchers have generated over 400 human nerve cell types from stem cells using systematic combinations of morphogens and gene activation. This improves disease modeling for conditions like Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia.

In a bid to better understand how cancer cells power their explosive growth and spread, scientists say they have shed new light on the location and function of power-generating waves on the cell membrane.

Researchers used CRISPR to find a pair of genes that show strong potential as a new therapeutic target for uveal melanoma – a rare eye cancer.

Researchers have created liver tissue that grows its own blood vessels, improving research into hemophilia and liver damage.

Researchers working on an incurable blood cancer can now use a new lab model, which could make testing potential new treatments and diagnostics easier and quicker, new research has found.

Researchers have successfully generated lung cells similar to alveolar epithelial type 2 (AT2) cells from mouse embryonic fibroblasts without using stem cell technology, slashing the time needed to do this.

Researchers developed a method to grow mesenchymal stem cells as aligned sheets using a patterned culture dish. This setup increases secretion of key cytokines linked to healing and immune regulation.

Benzaldehyde – a compound responsible for the aroma of almonds, apricots and figs – halts the growth and spread of therapy-resistant pancreatic cancer by preventing signaling protein interactions, a new study has found.