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Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. is a global biotechnology company dedicated to improving the human condition. Our systems, consumables and services enable researchers to accelerate scientific and medical advancements that make life even better. Thermo Fisher Scientific customers do their work across the biological spectrum, working to advance the fields of discovery and translational research, molecular medicine, stem cell-based therapies, food safety and animal health, and 21st century forensics. The company manufactures both molecular diagnostic and research use only products.
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Best Practices for Rapid High Titer Protein Expression
Recombinant protein expression is critical to research, biotherapeutic drug discovery and structural studies. Choosing the right protein expression system is key and the specific requirements of each application should be carefully considered. For instance, protein solubility, functionality, time to material, ... Continued
Media Optimization Strategies for Modifying Monoclonal Antibody Quality Attributes
Cell culture media optimization continues to play a critical role in both improving titers and providing a mechanism for modifying monoclonal antibody (mAb) quality attributes. Furthermore supplements and trace contaminants in the media can have dramatic effects, both positive and ... Continued
Best Practices for Being Productive and Staying Connected While Out of the Lab
Working from home can be very challenging, particularly if your work normally takes place in a lab. We were fortunate to have six cell culture researchers, who are part of Gibco’s Cell Culture Heroes program, share their experiences and best ... Continued
Cool Tool – New BenchStable™ Media Provides Flexibility and Convenience While Helping the Planet
Researchers looking for reduced cold storage space requirements and easier access to media on their bench top, now have an answer. Recently launched Gibco™ BenchStable™ media are specifically engineered for room-temperature storage. This permits flexible media storage on the lab ... Continued
Spheroid Cell Culture – Practical solutions for frequently asked questions
The past decade has seen an increase in publications recognizing the value of culturing cells in three dimensions (3D) and the use of these 3D cell culture models has shown utility in many areas of research from cancer biology to ... Continued
Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor—the Good, the Bad and the Stable
A guest article by the Research & Development team at Thermo Fisher Scientific What is Fibroblast Growth Factor? In order to answer this question, first let’s discuss the definition of fibroblast. Fibroblasts are the type of cell responsible for, among other things, ... Continued
A New Dimension of Cell Culture: The Rise of Spheroid Culture Systems
In this article, we discuss the evolution of spheroid culture systems, methodologies of spheroid formation, spheroid culture challenges and relevant solutions. Historically, much of the knowledge we have on cellular processes is from experiments where cells cultured on flat, two-dimensional (2D) ... Continued
Eliminate Contamination and Improve Efficiency with Gibco™ One Shot FBS
Fetal bovine serum is a widely used cell culture media supplement for the successful in vitro culture of many cell types. FBS is a rich source of nutrients, hormones, lipids, adhesion factors in addition to acting as carriers for growth ... Continued
Intelligently Designed Cell Culture Dishes Address Common Cell Culture Scientists’ Complaints
Who hasn’t been in the lab and accidently bumped one of their cell culture dishes, spilling the precious contents? Or has struggled to grip a dish with gloved hands? Well most people don’t think of cultureware, especially cell culture dishes, ... Continued
Cell Therapy Clinical Trials: Navigating the operational shift from Phase 1 to Phase 2
When navigating through the various phases of a Cell Therapy clinical trial, it's important that each phase "sets the stage" for those which follow. All activities that take place in Phase 1 will ultimately impact Phase 2, and so on ... Continued
Achieve gram per liter protein yields in a transient CHO system
Introduction CHO cells are the predominant host for biotherapeutic protein expression, with roughly 70% of licensed biologics manufactured in CHO. Multiple attributes make CHO cells desirable for bioproduction including the ability to adapt to high-density suspension culture in serum-free and chemically-defined ... Continued
Improve lentiviral production using Lipofectamine 3000 reagent
LentiVirus is extremely versatile and efficient transfection method to work in more biologically relevant cells. However, they can be difficult to produce. Invitrogen™ Lipofectamine™ 3000 Transfection Reagent can help improve lentivirus production. In addition to being a top performing reagent for ... Continued
Improving Live Cell Fluorescence Imaging
Introduction Live cell fluorescence imaging provides the opportunity to study cellular function, however there can be challenges with the ability to image weak fluorophors without damaging the health of your cells. During this Ask the Experts session, we will be discussing the ... Continued
Directed Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells
Introduction The promise of human pluripotent stem cells will be realized only when these cells are successfully coaxed into different cell types found in the human body, through the process of directed differentiation. This is critical to getting the desired cell ... Continued
Transient Protein Production in Mammalian Cells
Introduction This Ask the Expert will address questions in regards to transient protein production in mammalian cells. Mammalian transient expression allows for the rapid generation, purification, and characterization of milligram to gram quantities of secreted or intracellular recombinant proteins for therapeutic, ... Continued
PSC Stress Management: Minimizing the Impact of Stress on Pluripotent Stem Cell Health in a Range of Workflows
Introduction Have you ever wished you had a safety net for your pluripotent stem cells, suffering loss of a cell line during processes such as cryopreservation, electroporation, or single cell passaging? While stem cells have a tremendous proliferative capacity, long term ... Continued
Efficient cell specific differentiation systems for iPSC
Introduction The promise of human pluripotent stem cells will be realized only when these cells are successfully coaxed into different cell types found in the human body, through the process of directed differentiation. This is critical to getting the desired cell ... Continued
Options for Identification and Characterization of Pluripotent Stem Cells
Introduction The vast advances in technologies for the efficient generation of footprint-free induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) have led to the creation of several iPSC lines from varying sources, genetic backgrounds, and derivations in different medias and growth conditions, thus necessitating ... Continued
10 Things You Should Know About Dry Shippers Before Shipping High Value Biologics
As the biotech world has grown, the need to ship high value cell- and tissue-based materials has increased exponentially. An invaluable tool in the quest to move material in a safe and effective manner is the dry shipper and its ... Continued
Pluripotent stem cell (PSC) culture
Introduction Pluripotent stem cell (PSC) culture has evolved over the past decade, just as stem cell researcher needs have been changing and the market has been growing. Initial culture conditions for stem cells used FBS and mouse embryonic feeders (MEFs). The need for ... Continued