by Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt | Jul 2, 2018 | Trends
Organoids are in vitro-derived miniaturized organs that exhibit self-organization and recapitulate the functions of the in vivo organ they represent. For organoids to mimic their real-life counterparts as much as possible, they must receive appropriate physical and...
by Angela L. Huang | Nov 13, 2016 | Industry News
Recently, Cell Symposia celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the seminal publication on inducible pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). An audience of scientists from academia, biotech and pharma gathered to celebrate Drs. Yamanaka and Takahashi’s work and to discuss...
by Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt | Dec 17, 2018 | Industry News
The increasing complexity of novel therapies calls for disease models that take us closer than ever before to the in vivo situation, to maximize efficacy and safety evaluations of new experimental treatments. Significant improvements in our understanding of mammalian...
by tempo | Dec 11, 2020 | Industry News
Thirty (30) years ago, exosomes were first described as extracellular vesicles (References 1 and 5). Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell derived membrane structures. They are secreted as a result of fusions between intracellular endosomes and the plasma membrane. ...
by Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt | Jan 31, 2018 | Disease Models
For anyone who has studied biology, macrophages have most likely been on your reading list at one point or another. Microglia on the other hand are less likely to feature on your undergraduate syllabus (or else I’m older than I like to admit!). In this post, we...
