Stem Cell Products
This medium was developed in the Thomson lab and licensed by Thermo Fisher and Cellular Dynamics, to promote the growth of human stem cells, considered a robust "minimal" medium.
What is Essential 8.
This Stem Cell Medium would best be used for Suspension Culture.
What is StemScale.
The Product Manager for our Stem Cell Mediums
Who is Guene Thio.
In this year, embryonic stem cells were first derived.
What is 1981?
(The first mouse embryonic stem cells were derived initially by researchers Martin Evans and Matthew Kaufman)
Thermo Fisher Scientific has Geltrex while this company has Matrigel.
What is Corning.
bFGF is an acronym used for this growth factor.
What is basic fibroblast growth factor.
bFGF is one of the key growth factors used for maintaining pluripotency of human stem cells.
Thermo Fisher recommends this robust culture medium for adherent stem cell culture, especially with gene editing and single cell passaging applications.
What is StemFlex.
The Product Manager for our Neural Products.
Who is Kurt Laha.
The name of the scientist who first derived human embryonic stem cells.
Who is James Thomson
( University of Wisonsin-Madison)
This Vancouver-based competitor is known for their hPSC TeSR media family (including mTeSR Plus, formulated with stabilized FGF2, and can support single-cell cloning when used with CloneR
Who is Stem Cell Technologies? (SCT)
(mTeSR-plus claims to have improved buffering to protect from a drop in PH during culture, but the drop in PH usually observed is within physiologically normal invivo levels!)
This matrice is commonly used in human stem cell culture that requires more defined culture conditions.
What is Vitronectin?
This medium is a version of the "leanest" of the Stem Cell culture mediums, but does "not" contain bFGF and TGFb.
What is Essential 6?
(this medium is recommended as a good basal for stem cell differentiation medium )
bFGF inhibits differentiation, and TGFb has a negative impact on reprogramming.
Our FAS for 3D culture systems and modeling.
Who are Tom Forbes and Omar Farah
Human Embryonic Stem Cells were first derived in this year.
What is 1998.
( James Thomson in conjunction with a team at the UW-Madison Hospital with private funding)
This Japanese manufacturer makes StemFit Basic02, an animal-origin-free, defined medium for feeder-free maintenance of human PSCs.
Who is Ajinomoto?
(Ajinomoto is not only a food company, established by Dr. Kikunae Ikeda, who discovered "umami" in 1908, but is also a cell culture media competitor)
This product is commonly used as a non enzymatic cell dissociative reagent for passaging human stem cells
What is Versene.
This is a common rho kinase inhibitor used for recovery of human stem cells from cryopreservation and with single cell passaging.
What is ROCK inhibitor.
( the ROCK inhibitor plays an important role in cell polarity, proliferation, metabolism, differentiation and helps to inhibit apoptosis)
The TSS team you would reach out to for Stem Cell related customer support.
Who are the RMT TSS?
Regenerative Medicine TSS
The Nobel Prize was awarded to these two scientists for their contribution to Physiology and Medicine in 2012.
Who are Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanak...for their discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.
This competitor markets StemMACs iPS-Brew XF, a xeno-free medium for feeder-free maintenance of human ES and iPS cells
Who is Miltenyi Biotec?
(iPS-Brew XF requires additional supplementation of bFGF that has to be purchases separately)
The product CytoTune used for reprogramming human stem cells, is also commonly referred to as using "whose" factors.
Yamanaka factors
(Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc...
L-Myc replaces c-Myc as a non oncogenic factor in the CTS version)
This class of ADULT human stem cells has been used to treat spinal cord injury.
What are MSCs or What are NSCs
(Mesenchymal Stem Cells)
(Neural Stem Cells)
The FAS(s) you would reach out to for all your Stem Cell related questions.
Who are Omar Farah and Tom Forbes?
These two researchers published simultaneously online in 2007, a method for converting human skin cells that very closely resemble human embryonic stem cells.
Shinya Yamanaka and James Thomson.
( In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka reported on this methodology in mice)
REPROCELL markets this medium as a fully defined, xeno-free, feeder-free pluripotent maintenance medium, and their product documentation highlights that a Drug Master File (DMF) has been filed with the US FDA.
What is NutriStem hPSC XF medium?
(Remeber: our CTS products also common with regulatory support and Drug Master Files (DMFs)!)