Extending the shelf life of fresh cell therapies

7th November 2019

Therapies using live cells offer the possibility of treatments for diseases and conditions that cannot be approached by conventional drugs. Cells are being investigated for their abilities to reverse blindness, re-grow bone and nerves, restore the immune system and treat...

Preserving the Unfreezable

8th October 2019

Cell-based models used in drug discovery and testing are moving away from simple, immortalized cell lines towards systems that more accurately recapitulate an in vivo setting. There is a drive to using primary cells (including patient-specific cells from biopsy samples)...

What happens to cells on their journey back from -195°C?

5th September 2019

If we were to intercept an asteroid on its icy, lonely trek through space and take samples from its surface, would we expect to isolate viable cells on warming the samples? Maybe, maybe not – yet we expect that to...