Less plastic waste in biomedicine

Doctoral student receives research grant to develop more sustainable methods for cultivating stem cells

25-Feb-2026 - Research is essential for progress in medicine – but unfortunately, it also generates a lot of waste. Every year, laboratories around the world produce around 5.5 million tonnes of plastic waste. That is 2 per cent of the global amount of plastic waste – even though researchers make up less than ...

Novel human stem cell-derived liver organoids

Supplementation with bile acids gives rise to grape-like clusters resembling liver tissue

10-Jul-2025 - Adding bile acids as farnesoid X receptor agonists to the culture medium supported the growth and development of unique stem cell-derived hepatic organoids, report researchers from Japan. These three-dimensional liver organoids were capable of sustained, long-term proliferation while retaining ...

Bioreactor Allows Automated Long-Term Culturing of Stem Cells

06-Jan-2025 - Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are considered as a promising tool in medicine, with the potential to unlock treatments for many health conditions such as neurodegenerative diseases and disorders. However, producing large amounts of hiPSCs remains a challenge. Researchers from the ...

Markers in iPSC quality control – a new approach to enhance standardization

“Machine learning is an attractive tool to streamline processes”

12-Nov-2024 - Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have a great potential for scientific and medical applications. They are used in research laboratories to model human diseases, helping to uncover underlying mechanisms and developing new therapies. Additionally, they are being tested in clinical ...

With AI and lasers to fully automated cell selection

Continuous movement versus stop-and-go process

14-Mar-2024 - Tests on living cell cultures are becoming increasingly important for personalized medicine, drug development and clinical research. The Aachen-based Fraunhofer Institutes for Laser Technology ILT and for Production Technology IPT have developed an AI-assisted high-throughput process that now ...

A mini-heart in a Petri dish: organoid emulates the development of the human heart

New cell type discovered

06-Apr-2023 - A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has induced stem cells to emulate the development of the human heart. The result is a sort of “mini-heart” known as an organoid. It will permit the study of the earliest development phase of our heart and facilitate research on diseases. The ...

Mapping human brain development

With the help of brain organoids, ETH researchers are investigating gene networks that control the development of different brain regions

12-Oct-2022 - Researchers at ETH Zurich are growing human brain-​like tissue from stem cells and are then mapping the cell types that occur in different brain regions and the genes that regulate their development. The human brain is probably the most complex organ in the entire living world and has long been ...

Stem cell secrets allow researchers to revamp reprogramming

Researchers have identified factors required to generate naïve stem cells by reprogramming

30-Mar-2022 - Researchers from the Babraham Institute’s Epigenetics research programme have been able to learn more about naïve stem cell reprogramming following a genome wide functional screen. Their research, published in Science Advances, describes the critical regulators of reprogramming and offers ...

Embryonic development in cell culture

Research group can for the first time reproduce early human heart development in a culture dish using human pluripotent stem cells

11-Feb-2021 - To study early stages in embryonic development in the cell culture dish, scientists use so-called human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC). These are cells with have remarkablespecial properties that can be multipliedas they can indefinitely multiply and are capable of forming any functional cell type ...

Researchers create human airway stem cells from patients' cells

Advancing regenerative research for lung diseases, results could lead to new treatments for airways and lungs damaged by COVID-19, influenza, asthma and cystic fibrosis

27-Oct-2020 - For the first time, researchers have successfully created airway basal stem cells in vitro from induced pluripotent stem cells by reprogramming blood cells taken from patients. Given that airway basal cells are defined as stem cells of the airways because they can regenerate the airway epithelium ...