by Olwen Reina | Jul 26, 2016 | Disease Models
Melanocytes are cells that produce melanin, the pigment present in our skin, eyes, and hair. iPS-derived melanocytes are used in models of skin disease, drug toxicity assays, skin bioprinting and in cell therapy R&D. Previously, we looked at the role of melanin...
by Olwen Reina | Jul 17, 2016 | Disease Models
Not a week goes by that I don’t see an article in my newsfeed about some new possible treatment to cure something or other. When you start looking into the “New Treatment Can Cure Most Forms of Cancer!” usually it’s some new therapeutic that...
by Olwen Reina | Jul 10, 2016 | Disease Models
Melanocytes are melanin-producing cells found mainly in the lowest part of the top layer of your skin or to put it in science-speak: the stratum basale of your epidermis (see our article on the morphology of the skin). Melanin is a pigment, best known and primarily...
by Olwen Reina | Jul 3, 2016 | Cell Culture Techniques
There is nothing more tragic than walking into your tissue culture room only to find a researcher curled up on the floor, clasping a flask, and wailing that their cells have been contaminated. It’s a fate I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy! Hopefully it has...
