Latest Trends in Stem Cell Technologies

Invitrogen presented major trends in stem cell technologies at the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) 7th Annual Meeting in Barcelona, Spain. The ISSCR meeting is the pre-eminent international stem cell conference, attracting more than 2,500 of the foremost stem cell professionals from public, private, academic and government organisations. Several presentations during the conference will highlight how Invitrogen products are enabling pioneering approaches to culture and expansion of multiple human stem cell types.

Life Technologies, through its Invitrogen portfolio of products, is playing a principal role in induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) research, working with collaborators from leading research centres to develop new tools and technologies to advance iPSC discoveries. A number of products, for use across the iPSC workflow, were highlighted during the conference, including ViraPower™ HiPerform™ reprogramming technologies, KnockOut™ SR XenoFree and StemPRO® serum-free media and growth factor cocktails, CELLstart™ xeno-free substrates and the Dynabeads® SSEA-4 extraction system.

Mohan Vemuri, PhD, Life Technologies’ Director of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine and Mahendra Rao, PhD, Life Technologies’ Vice President of Stem Cell Research, presented tutorials on the benefits of using Invitrogen’s XenoFree Media for growing human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells and neural stem cells. For those that didn’t attend the conference, questions on these and other tutorials featuring Invitrogen products will be answered on the Invitrogen website.