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Controlling Relative Humidity
Relative Humidity in Xvivo System Incubators New Concepts and Practices with the Risk-based Approach We are all taught to do cell biology in room air conditions with room air CO2 incubators. This is technology that hasn’t changed in 60 years. We filled up...
Death to Cleanrooms
Death to Cleanrooms Cleanrooms can be eliminated for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, if the goal of 100% closed processing can be achieved. Learn why properly conditioned isolators are replacing cleanrooms. This bold statement is from Pharma’s Almanac...
Cytocentric Visionaries: Adrien Moya p2
Cytocentric Visionaries: Dr. Adrien Moya, University of Miami Part 2: Focusing on Cell Fate In Part One of this two-part interview, we talk with Dr. Moya about his recent paper on the importance of proper glucose and oxygen levels for MSC in...
Cytocentric Visionaries: Adrien Moya p1
Cytocentric Visionaries: Dr. Adrien Moya, University of Miami Part 1: Oxygen and Glucose for Engineering Tissues Dr. Adrien Moya has just started a post-doc at the University of Miami in the lab of Paul Schiller. Here we discuss Dr. Moya’s...
Interviews with outstanding researchers that are changing, at a fundamental level, our understanding of the in vitro world.
Cytocentric Visionaries Jan Jensen p1
Cytocentric Visionaries: Jan Jensen, Trailhead BioSystems Part One: Unbiased Cell Science: Don’t Try to Out-Think Nature Dr. Jan Jensen is the E. J. Brandon Endowed Professor in Diabetes Research at the Cleveland Clinic and also CSO of...
Production of Retinal Progenitor Cells under Full-Time Optimized cGMP Conditions in the Barrier Isolator
Production of Retinal Progenitor Cells under Full-Time Optimized cGMP Conditions in the Barrier Isolator A recent paper in Nature’s Scientific Reports from the Budd Tucker’s lab at University of Iowa reported producing xeno-free...
Cytocentric Visionaries Jim Uniacke
Cytocentric Visionaries: Dr. Jim Uniacke, University of Guelph Cells are Vastly Different Under Physiologic Oxygen than in Room Air James Uniacke, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the...
Are We Doing Enough to Protect Our People in the Lab
Are We Doing Enough to Protect Our People in the Lab? Even with proper procedures, lab workers are still at risk for becoming infected. Discover some ways to reduce laboratory-acquired infections below. Mysterious Illnesses Two documented cases...
Cytocentric Visionaries Heather O Leary p3
Cytocentric Visionaries: Dr. Heather O’Leary Part Three: Hypoxia, Metabolism, and Is Room Air “Good Enough” for Stem Cells? This is final part in a three-part series of blog posts containing excerpts from an interview that Dr. Alicia Henn,...
Cytocentric Visionaries Heather O Leary p2
Cytocentric Visionaries: Dr. Heather O’Leary Part Two: The Technical Challenges of Working in Physiologic Oxygen with Less-than-ideal Equipment This is Part Two in a three-part series of blog posts from an interview that Dr. Alicia...
Cytocentric Visionaries Heather O Leary p1
Cytocentric Visionaries: Dr. Heather O’Leary Part One: Extraphysiologic Oxygen Shock This is a three-part series of blog posts containing excerpts from an interview that Dr. Alicia Henn, Chief Scientific Officer of BioSpherix,...
The Fixable Problems behind the In Vitro Reproducibility Crisis
The Fixable Problems behind the In Vitro Reproducibility Crisis “Standards” as a Dirty Word Leonard Freedman, President of the Global Biological Standards Institute in Washington, D.C. published a paper last year in PLOS...
Cytocentric Visionaries Ian Mudway p3
Cytocentric Visionaries: Ian Mudway, King's College, UK Part Three: We Will Know We Have Gotten Through When People Complain About the Difficulties of Publishing Data Generated under Atmospheric Oxygen In Part Two, Dr. Henn talked with Dr....
Cytocentric Visionaries Ian Mudway p2
Cytocentric Visionaries: Ian Mudway, King's College, UK Part Two: Taking a Career Risk for Better Cell Culture and Better Science In Part One, Dr. Henn talked with Dr. Ian Mudway about his recent publication , “Quantifying the...