Cytocentric Blog
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...
Cytocentric Visionaries Budd Tucker p2
Cytocentric Visionary: Budd Tucker, University of Iowa Part 2: Modularity is Key to Cell Therapy Process Flexibility Dr. Budd Tucker is the Stephen A. Wynn Associate Professor of Regenerative Ophthalmology at the Stephen A. Wynn...
Interviews with outstanding researchers that are changing, at a fundamental level, our understanding of the in vitro world.
Cytocentric Visionaries Ian Mudway p1
Cytocentric Visionaries: Ian Mudway, King's College, UK Part One: What Are the Fundamental Things That We Absolutely Have To Get Right? Ian Mudway is a Lecturer in Respiratory Toxicology at King’s College in London. He has been active in air...
Cord Blood HSC and Physiologic Oxygen
Mini-Review: Cord Blood HSC and Physiologic Oxygen At what oxygen level should I culture my umbilical cord-derived hematopoietic stem cells? It’s not a question you will hear on Jeopardy, but it is a critically important question for research...
What is the O2 Level in my Cell Culture Incubator
What is the O2 Level in My Cell Culture Incubator? (Hint: It’s Not 21%) Because room air is assumed to be near 21% oxygen, researchers often report that their room air incubator is as well. However, if you would think about it for a...
Cytocentric Visionaries Michael Gilkey p3
Cytocentric Visionaries: Michael Gilkey, CEO Trailhead Biosystems Part Three: Let the Cells Lead the Way through the Matrix and Don’t Be Afraid of Change. In part 2, we sit with Trailhead Systems CEO, Michael Gilkey, to discuss using the Xvivo...
Cytocentric Visionaries Michael Gilkey p2
Cytocentric Visionaries: Michael Gilkey, CEO Trailhead Biosystems Part Two: How to Get that Just-Right Cell in the Middle Alicia Henn, Chief Scientific Officer, BioSpherix IIn the first part of our interview with Michael Gilkey, CEO of...
Cytocentric Visionaries Michael Gilkey p1
Cytocentric Visionaries: Michael Gilkey, CEO Trailhead Biosystems Part One: Optimizing Cell Media in 12 Dimensions: You Can’t Do This by Hand Alicia Henn, Chief Scientific Officer, BioSpherix In addition to being CEO of the Ohio...
Cytocentric Visionaries Donald Phinney p3
Cytocentric Visionaries: Donald Phinney Part 3: The Cell Cycle Is the Redox Cycle, and All Clinical MSC are Stressed In Part Two, Chief Scientific Officer Alicia Henn talked with Dr. Phinney about MSC, the exosomes that they produce and...
Cytocentric Visionaries Donald Phinney p2
Cytocentric Visionaries: Donald Phinney Part Two: MSC vs Exosomes and Therapies In Part One, Chief Scientific Officer Alicia Henn talks with Dr. Phinney about his publication in Nature Communications, ”Mesenchymal stem cells use...
Cytocentric Visionaries Donald Phinney p1
Cytocentric Visionaries: Donald Phinney, Chair Department of Molecular Therapeutics, The Scripps Research Institute Part One: Mesenchymal Stem Cells, as Healers, Aren’t So Selfless Chair of the Molecular Therapeutics Department at Scripps, Dr....
Gas Control in Semi-sealed Chambers
Gas Control in Semi-sealed Chambers Dalton in the Incubator We are all familiar with how CO2 is infused into cell culture incubators to raise CO2 to physiologic levels and keep carbonic acid based media in the proper pH range for...