Growth factors &cytokines and their function in wound healing
What are Cytokines?Cytokines are small cell-signaling protein molecules, which are used extensively in intercellular communication. Cytokines can be classified as proteins, peptides, or ...
Brief Introduction of Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization
Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization(FISH) is a method used to determine cell ploidy and locate a target segment of DNA on a chromosome. The DNA of interest is labeled with a fluorescent dye and ...
Why Do Scientists Need Primary Cells ?
Why Do Scientists Need Primary Cells ?Primary cells refer to cells that are straightly taken from human and animal tissue with no passages, typically used as biologically relevant and in-vivo cell ...
What Is Retinal Pigment Epithelium ?
Retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is the pigmented cell layer outside the neurosensory retina, which nourishes retinal visual cells, firmly attached to the underlying choroid and overlying retinal ...
Important Factors Related to the Isolation of Cardiomyocytes from Animal Hearts
Isolation of high quality cardiac myocytes is key to the successful experiments with fresh or cultured cells. Though, the isolation of myocyte has been conducted for several decades, there remains no ...
Ba/F3 and Kinase Drug Discovery
Kinase inhibition is an area of significant interest across academia and pharmaceutical industry and kinase drug discovery has resulted in the rapid development of a new generation of cancer drugs. ...
Robert Langer: The Winner of Kyoto Prize in 2014
Robert Samuel Langer, born in 1948 in Albany, New York, now is an American engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, inventor and also professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has the ...
How do scientists achieve stem cells differentiation?
How do scientists achieve stem cells differentiation?Stem cells are extraordinary cells, capable of both self-renewal and differentiation to mature somatic cells in vivo and in vitro and they have ...
What is the Future of the Biosimilars Business?
Biosimilars also known as follow-on biologics are biologic medical products whose active drug substance are made by a living organism or derived from a living organism by means of recombinant DNA or ...
The first Human Stomach Tissue Was Generated with Stem Cell
A recent report announced that a group of scientists had successfully generated functional, three-dimensional human stomach tissue with pluripotent stem cells in their laboratory, bringing new hopes ...