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The field of stem cell research has boomed over the past twelve months, bringing to light new ideas for treatments and applications. Here at BioInformant, we strive to do our best to provide you with the most up to date information related to the industry. As a supplement to our monthly round-ups, we thought it would be important to share the top ten most shared stem cell articles from the past year.
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The dental pulp stem cell industry is a rapidly evolving industry. Every month there are major events occurring in the sector that shift industry dynamics. Often, these events are announcements of technical or scientific advancements. Sometimes they are announcements of major industry alliances. Occasionally, they are announcements of a new industry competitor, a major milestone, or a significant funding award.
For those of us interested in the dental pulp stem cell industry, tracking these shifting industry dynamics is of paramount importance. For this reason, this post covers the most significant neural stem cell industry news events as of July 2015.
Since their discovery in 2006, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been commercialized in a number of different ways. iPSCs have been used as tools for drug development and discovery, for toxicology applications, in stem cell biobanking, in personalized medicine, and as research products. While each of these commercial applications is important, this post specifically considers the use of iPSCs as research products – meaning, tools that scientists use in their labs for research purposes and applications.
Specifically, this post explores the breakdown of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) research products, by category. This analysis is intended to direct the decision-making of research supply companies by indicating where there is high market demand at this time. (To learn about future directions for iPSCs, click here.)
Are you an executive at a stem cell company that offers induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) research products? Or, are you an investor in a company of this type? If so, have you wondered how much market competition exists for your products or services? Have you been curious as to the rate at which this competition is increasing? By focusing on these key points of understanding, you’ll be able to assess the technical attributes that matter, including what opportunities exist for expanding your product line and your customer reach.
iPSC research products have existed since 2006, the year in which Shinya Yamanaka’s team at Kyoto University first produced iPSCs from mouse cells. The discovery was a vital advancement in stem cell research, as it allows researchers to obtain pluripotent stem cells without the difficult legal, technical and ethical controversies that have long surrounded deriving cells from embryos. Yamanaka and his team reprogrammed adult mouse fibroblasts into iPSCs by introducing four reprogramming factors: Oct4, Sox2, c-Myc and Klf4. Subsequent work by James Thomson and colleagues replicated Yamanaka’s success with human cells and revealed additional factors, Nanog and Lin28, which facilitate the reprogramming process.
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“Stem cell biobanking” is the cryogenic storage of stem cells, or biological samples containing stem cells, for use at a later point in time. Therefore, the “stem cell biobanking market” is defined as the total annual revenue derived from the storage of:
For company executives and investors that are competing within the stem cell biobanking marketplace, it is important to know the nine market segments that compose the stem cell biobanking market at large.
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