Exosomes have become one of the fastest growing topics in cell biology, showing up in studies on cancer, neurodegenerative disease, cardiovascular health, and drug delivery. Once dismissed as simple cellular...
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Cell based immunotherapy has changed how researchers and clinicians approach cancer treatment. Two of the most discussed approaches right now are NK cell therapy and CAR-T cell therapy. Both use...
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T cells are one of the most studied immune cells in modern biology, and they sit at the center of almost every major advance in cancer immunotherapy. Researchers rely on...
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Peripheral blood mononuclear cells, commonly known as PBMCs, are one of the most widely used cell samples in biomedical research. They give scientists a practical way to study the human...
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Stem cell research changed permanently in 2006 when a Japanese scientist named Shinya Yamanaka demonstrated something most biologists thought was impossible: an ordinary adult cell could be reprogrammed back into...
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If you work in immunology, T-cell biology, or CAR-T cell research, you have almost certainly encountered Jurkat cells. They are one of the most widely used human cell lines in...
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Pancreatic cancer is among the deadliest malignancies known to medicine. The five-year survival rate for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), which accounts for over 90 percent of all pancreatic cancers, sits...
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For decades, the standard tools of biomedical research were flat, two-dimensional cell cultures grown in plastic dishes. They were practical, reproducible, and cheap. But they had one fundamental limitation: real...
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For decades, fetal bovine serum was the default supplement in cell culture. It worked well enough: it provided growth factors, hormones, and proteins that kept cells alive and dividing. But...
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Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer death among men worldwide. It is also one of...
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Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide and the second leading cause of cancer-related death. Despite decades of research and a growing arsenal of targeted therapies, advanced-stage...
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In 1951, a sample of cancer cells taken from a patient in Baltimore changed the course of modern medicine. Those cells, now known as HeLa cells, became the first human...
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If you have spent any time in a biomedical research lab, you have almost certainly come across HEK293 cells. They appear in studies on gene therapy, drug development, vaccine production,...
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