As you start to learn about stem cells, one of the most common questions to have is, “What types of stem cells exist?” There is not an agreed-upon number of stem cell types, because one can classify stem cells either by differentiation potential (what they can turn into) or by origin (from where they are sourced). This post is dedicated to explaining the five types of stem cells, based on differentiation potential. [Read more…]
Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs)
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a well-characterized population of adult stem cells that can differentiate into a variety of cell types (chondrocytes, osteoblasts, adipocytes, myocytes, and more).
Cultured Meat Market: From the Lab to the Grocery Store
Cultured meat refers to lab-grown meat created using cell culture techniques. It is produced by growing master cells collected from cattle, chicken, pigs, fish, and lamb, as well as other types of livestock and seafood. In addition to meat and seafood production, cultured meat techniques can be used to ethically manufacture other types of animal products, such as leather, as well as animal byproducts, including lab-grown milk and hen-free egg whites, for example. Cultured meat is ethically produced, because livestock is not used within the manufacturing processes beyond collecting the initial cells for culture. [Read more…]
Clean Meat Market: Stem Cell Derived “Clean Meat” Attracts Billionaires
Although not yet popular, lab-grown meat is fast becoming a real alternative to its farm-grown counterpart as billionaire entrepreneurs and industry heavyweights invest into start-ups from across the nascent field of “cellular agriculture”. Produced via stem cells derived from cows, pigs, fish, or sheep, the emerging clean meat industry has the potential to transform the global food market and create a new trillion dollar industry in the process. [Read more…]
Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) in the Era of Regenerative Medicine
Mesenchymal stem cells are a class of multipotent cells found in human tissues, such as bone marrow, adipose tissue, dental pulp, and periosteum, a layer of connective tissue that envelops the bones. They are also known as: Medicinal Signaling Cells, Mesenchymal Stromal Cells, and Marrow Stromal Cells. Given this naming variability, these cells are best known as: MSCs. [Read more…]
AgeX Therapeutics’ Licensee ImStem Biotechnology Does First U.S. Multiple Sclerosis Patient with IMS001
ImStem’s MSC Product Candidate IMS001 is Derived from AgeX’s Pluripotent Stem Cell Line ESI-053.
IMS001 is an investigational, allogeneic, MSC product derived from a human embryonic stem cell line.
It is assumed to be the first hES-MSC based allogeneic cell therapy accepted for clinical trial by the FDA for patients with MS.
