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The Scientific Research Notes Of S. Sunkavally (years: 2002-2011).

Safer Culture Conditions for Stem Cells

Jeanne Loring from the Scripps Institute is the senior author of a very important study that examined the culture conditions for pluripotent stem cells.

Several scientists have discovered that induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and embryonic stem cells (ESCs) can accumulate cancer-causing mutations when grown in culture for extended periods of time (for example, see Uri Weissbein, Nissim…

Derivation and Culture of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells on an Artificial Substrate

When mouse embryonic stem cells were first derived in 1981 independently by Gail Martin at UCSF and Evans and Kaufman at Cambridge University, the inner cell mass cells from the blastocyst-stage mouse embryos were cultured on a layer of mouse skin cells that had been treated with a drug that prevented them from dividing or with radiation that did the same. These single layers of mouse skin…

A new study, published today in the journal Applied Materials & Interfaces reports the discovery of a new method for growing human embryonic stem cells that does not depend on feeder cells from human or animal cells.

Traditionally, embryonic stem cells…