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• New DNA analysis thousand times more sensitive

  An international team of researchers has developed a new DNA technology which makes it possible to perform reliable analyses on DNA quantities that are a thousand times smaller than was previously the case. The method can be used, for example, to study small quantities of stem cells, starting tumour more

• New insights into how stem cells determine what tissue to become
  

  Within 24 hours of culturing adult human stem cells on a new type of matrix, University of Michigan researchers were able to make predictions about how the cells would differentiate, or what type of tissue they would become. Their results are published in the Aug. 1 edition of Nature Methods. Diffe more

• Alternative methods replace animal experiments: 20 years successful work by ZEBET within BfR

  The Centre for Documentation and Evaluation of Alternatives to Animal Experiments (ZEBET) celebrated its 20th birthday with a symposium at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin. When it was founded in 1989, ZEBET was the first state research institute in the world with a remit to more

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• Superior Transfection of Human Embryonic Stem Cells with FuGENE® HD Transfection Reagent
  

  Gene manipulation techniques are potentially powerful tools in many applications for human embryonic stem (ES) cell research. Controlling expression levels of specific genes may improve the efficiency of differentiation induction. Cell types of interest may be collected using marker genes and antibiotic resistance genes. Tracking of ES cells derived after engraftment could be facilitated by tracer genes. It may also be possible to selectively destroy transplanted cells. more

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