Last week was the 4th Annual IBC Cell Therapy Bioprocessing Conference. IBC (home of the BioProcess International conference) was the first conference organizer to dedicate a focused meeting on Cell Therapy Manufacturing Technologies 4 ... More
From www.CellTherapyWonk.com Fall is almost here, and that means it is Cell Therapy Bioprocessing and Manufacturing conference season. This year it started a few weeks earlier as conference organizer CHI ... More
Closed system 10 layer and media bags are now readily available from several vendors. Fall is almost here, and that means it is Cell Therapy Bioprocessing and Manufacturing conference season. ... More
Human MSCs are the single most used cell source for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications, and clinical trials involving hMSCs have outpaced all other cell types in recent years ... More
Extreme cellular stress can trigger senescence, a mechanism protecting against malignant cell transformation. Adapted from: Kovacic J C et al. Circulation. 2011;123:1650-1660 We’ve mentioned several times on this blog how standardization of materials, ... More
As we stated in an earlier blog post, standardization of materials, equipment, and processes will be critical to driving reproducibility and robustness of living cell technologies to the point where ... More
In the body, MSCs are known to home to sites of acute injury and inflammation and migrate to tumors in response to tumor secretion of growth factors, cytokines, and extracellular ... More
Prolific Stem Cell and Cell Therapy Blogger Alexey Bersenev (@cells_nnm on Twitter) has recently written a post on his Cell Trials blog titled “Trends in cell therapy clinical trials 2011 ... More
@JennWebb recently wrote an article for the O’Reilly Radar titled Democratizing Technology and the Road to Empowerment. She starts out the article with a nice summary of what it means ... More
Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) are widely studied in academic circles and an attractive cell source for clinical applications. MSCs not only possess the ability to self-renew and differentiate to a number ... More