The REPROCELL Blog

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Limitations of the isolated perfused heart and alternative models

Drug Discovery • 24 May 2022

Everything we know about the 5-HT2A (serotonin) receptor

Drug Discovery • 4 May 2022

Everything we know about the 5-HT1B receptor

Drug Discovery • 21 April 2022

Skin biopsy and ex vivo culture methods

Drug Discovery • 29 March 2022

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The influence of the microbiome on inflammatory bowel disease

Drug Discovery • 18 March 2022

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What is Human Tissue Testing?

Drug Discovery • 14 March 2022

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REPROCELL Solutions for Skin Disease Researchers

Drug Discovery • 4 March 2022

Predicting Psoriasis Drug Efficacy in Human Skin [INFOGRAPHIC]

Drug Discovery • 3 March 2022

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How SynFire® Technology can benefit your research

Stem Cells • 3 March 2022

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Inserts or plates for your 3D cell culture?

Drug Discovery • 28 February 2022

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How to improve your 3D Cell Culture using Small-scale Perfusion Systems

Drug Discovery • 15 February 2022

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Enhance your epithelial barriers assay using Alvetex

Drug Discovery • 7 February 2022

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Everything you need to know about the REPROCELL iPSC Biobank

Stem Cells • 30 November 2021

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How we established an in vitro Parkinson’s Disease model

Stem Cells • 24 November 2021

In infographic of the CRISPR cas9 system

How digital PCR can improve CRISPR gene editing (with examples)

Stem Cells • 5 October 2021

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What is digital droplet PCR and how can it improve stem cell therapies?

Stem Cells • 13 September 2021

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The ultimate guide to REPROCELL’s GMP iPSC manufacturing service

Clinical Capabilities • 9 September 2021

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The ultimate guide to REPROCELL’s stem cell research services

Stem Cells • 16 August 2021

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Will mRNA change medicine for good?

Clinical Capabilities • 12 August 2021

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Top 10 stem cell culture products

Stem Cells • 2 July 2021

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Human tissue testing and precision medicine

Drug Discovery • 8 June 2021

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The ultimate guide to Alvetex

Drug Discovery • 31 May 2021

Comparison of In vivo human skin model to a in vitro human skin model

How to bioengineer epithelial tissues in vitro

Drug Discovery • 25 May 2021

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Improving precision medicine strategies with human tissue testing

Clinical Capabilities • 29 April 2021

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Precision medicine for COVID-19 pandemic

Drug Discovery • 3 February 2021

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Protocol for immunocytochemistry of stem cells

Stem Cells • 29 January 2021

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StemFit®: Mesenchymal Stem Cell therapy for liver cirrhosis [INTERVIEW]

Stem Cells • 4 January 2021

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Everything you need to know about the Dapivirine Vaginal Ring for HIV prevention

Drug Discovery • 15 December 2020

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Five reasons to choose StemRNA 3rd Gen Reprogramming Technology

Stem Cells • 4 December 2020

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StemFit®: How to create a renal vascular system in vitro [INTERVIEW]

15 September 2020

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What is translational science?

Drug Discovery • 11 September 2020

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StemFit: iPSCs for corneal epithelial stem cell deficiency [INTERVIEW]

Clinical Capabilities • 4 September 2020

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This light-activated treatment could help patients with peripheral artery disease [INTERVIEW]

Drug Discovery • 1 September 2020

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4 Examples of human models of respiratory diseases

Drug Discovery • 3 August 2020

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Using 3D culture to improve Caco-2 permeability assays

Drug Discovery • 14 July 2020

An intranasal vaccine standing by itself in front of many others in the background

Why eTheRNA's mRNA vaccine may offer a long-term solution to COVID

Drug Discovery • 13 July 2020

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CRISPR-Cas9: Big Data, Precision Medicine and Universal Cell Therapy

Stem Cells • 13 April 2020

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How to Characterize the Barrier Properties of Alvetex®-Based Mucosal Models

Drug Discovery • 6 April 2020

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How CRISPR-SNIPER compares to other gene editing techniques

Stem Cells • 1 April 2020

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A Visual Guide to CRISPR-SNIPER Gene Editing [INFOGRAPHIC]

Stem Cells • 30 March 2020

Mesenchymal stem cells Cells under fluorescent microscope

How is Stemchymal® performing in Clinical Trials? [INFOGRPHIC]

Clinical Capabilities • 16 March 2020

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3 challenges facing the introduction of iPSC-derived therapies

Clinical Capabilities • 12 February 2020

A female presenting operator using a fluorescent microscope

4 ways stem cells be used in medical treatments

Clinical Capabilities • 12 February 2020

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5 Benefits of Precision Medicine

Clinical Capabilities • 7 February 2020

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4 reasons human tissues should be used to predict drug bioavailability

Drug Discovery • 29 January 2020

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How to estimate drug permeability using the Ussing Chamber technique

Drug Discovery • 22 January 2020

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Cost Effective, Lab-scale Spheroid Culture of iPSCs

Stem Cells • 21 January 2020

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4 TED Talks discussing the future of regenerative medicine

Clinical Capabilities • 19 December 2019

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Stem cells offer hope for sufferers of Spinocerebellar Ataxia

Clinical Capabilities • 8 November 2019

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How to mass culture induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)

Stem Cells • 30 October 2019

Improve Gene-Editing Success with CRISPR-SNIPER Technology

Stem Cells • 29 October 2019

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What are the advantages of an internship to employers?

Life Sciences • 23 October 2019

Diagram showing the mechanism by which StemRNA technology blocks the natural cell defence mechanisms against foreign RNA

Which stem cell reprogramming technology should I use?

Stem Cells • 17 October 2019

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IBDiscovery: Combining patient and drug discovery data to transform healthcare

Drug Discovery • 16 September 2019

What is CRISPR-SNIPER Gene Editing?

Stem Cells • 2 September 2019

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Human tissue testing rescued Pharma's drug from clinical failure

Drug Discovery • 13 August 2019

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Machine Learning and Big Data in Precision Medicine

Clinical Capabilities • 8 August 2019

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Pluripotent Potential for Clinical Application

Clinical Capabilities • 25 July 2019

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An Improved Model for IBD Drug Discovery

Drug Discovery • 11 July 2019

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Advances in diagnostics, treatments, and frontiers of research in IBD

Drug Discovery • 13 June 2019

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How Human Organoculture can be used to Improve Precision Medicine Strategies

Drug Discovery • 5 June 2019

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Will The Microbiome Become The Next Hot Topic For Cancer Research?

Drug Discovery • 16 May 2019

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REPROCELL Solutions for Respiratory Disease Researchers

Drug Discovery • 29 April 2019

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Stem Cells for Autism

Stem Cells • 3 April 2019

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How the Medical Discovery Catapult is Improving Precision Medicine

28 March 2019

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Neurite Outgrowth Assays using StemRNA Neuro

Stem Cells • 20 March 2019

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Using human iPSCs as an in vitro model for regenerative medicine and disease modelling

Stem Cells • 22 February 2019

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The gut microbiome in health and disease: the future for diagnosis and treatment of IBD and IBS?

Drug Discovery • 12 February 2019

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Tissue Sourcing for the Development of iPSC-derived Disease Models

Stem Cells • 6 February 2019

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REPROCELL Solutions for Gastrointestinal Researchers

Drug Discovery • 25 October 2018

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The importance of internships for life science students

Life Sciences • 19 October 2018

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How paid internships can benefit life science students

Life Sciences • 13 September 2018

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IBD drug discovery and human tissue research

Drug Discovery • 7 September 2018

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Human tissue testing helped Roche reduce diarrheal toxicity

Drug Discovery • 26 June 2018

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How animal experimentation can lead to adverse drug effects

Drug Discovery • 25 May 2018

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Human Tissue Testing in Drug Discovery and Development

Drug Discovery • 27 March 2018

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Patient-derived tumor organoids recapitulate clinical treatments

Drug Discovery • 14 March 2018

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Xeno-free culture of stem cells in NutriStem® hPSC XF medium

Stem Cells • 5 February 2018