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07-25-2015, 12:29 AM
Synthetic Material for Growing Billions of Stem Cells
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Stem cell therapy has great potential for treating diseased cardiac tissue. Such procedures require tremendous amounts of cells to be grown from patients’ own stem cells in a laboratory environment. Since such therapies are still in a research stage, dealing with a few patients is considerably more manageable than if such therapies are to come to full scale clinical application. In just a few years, we might be expecting clinical labs to be producing billions of new cells on a daily basis, so preparing for this scenario is its own challenge for*making stem cell therapy accessible. Researchers at the University of **ttingham have **w developed an artificial substrate that can serve as a platform on which large numbers of pluripotent stem cells can be made to grow and differentiate*by the billion.
The polymer material is an excellent candidate because it is **t subject to contamination, unlike naturally produced media harvested from animals. The researchers are **w testing*the tech**logy in a number of trials, hopefully leading to stem cell therapy being soon used on a regular basis in hospitals worldwide.
Study in Advanced Materials:*Discovery of a **vel Polymer for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion and Multilineage Differentiation… (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201501351/full)
Source: University of **ttingham… (http://www.**ttingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2015/july/new-material-forges-the-way-for-stem-cell-factories.aspx)
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Stem cell therapy has great potential for treating diseased cardiac tissue. Such procedures require tremendous amounts of cells to be grown from patients’ own stem cells in a laboratory environment. Since such therapies are still in a research stage, dealing with a few patients is considerably more manageable than if such therapies are to come to full scale clinical application. In just a few years, we might be expecting clinical labs to be producing billions of new cells on a daily basis, so preparing for this scenario is its own challenge for*making stem cell therapy accessible. Researchers at the University of **ttingham have **w developed an artificial substrate that can serve as a platform on which large numbers of pluripotent stem cells can be made to grow and differentiate*by the billion.
The polymer material is an excellent candidate because it is **t subject to contamination, unlike naturally produced media harvested from animals. The researchers are **w testing*the tech**logy in a number of trials, hopefully leading to stem cell therapy being soon used on a regular basis in hospitals worldwide.
Study in Advanced Materials:*Discovery of a **vel Polymer for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion and Multilineage Differentiation… (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201501351/full)
Source: University of **ttingham… (http://www.**ttingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2015/july/new-material-forges-the-way-for-stem-cell-factories.aspx)
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