Differentiation of human induced
Pluripotent Stem Cells
hiPSCs can be routinely generated from somatic cells of healthy donors or even patient-specific disease samples. After differentiation into tissue-specific cell types like neurons, cardiomyocytes or hepatocytes, hiPSCs can serve as next generation disease models in-a-dish, facilitating many applications in basic research, drug discovery and preclinical development.
Up to now, many applications in academia, biotech and pharmaceutical industry still rely on immortalized cancer cell lines as model system with all the drawbacks like genetic instability, aberrant gene expression patterns and dysfunctional signal pathways. Even the use of human primary cells has severe disadvantages like ethical problems, donor-to-donor variability and other general limitations (e.g. availability, limited expansion).
However, hiPSCs do not exhibit these limitations, have an unlimited expansion potential and can be differentiated into all cell types of the three germ layer lineages (ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm). Moreover, intermediate differentiation stages can be further amplified.
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Run-Through
Differentiation Service
If you have a proven hiPS cell line and an already established differentiation protocol including validated QC markers available, we will be able to serve as your time- and cost-saving extended workbench and provide you with the differentiated cells ready-to-use for your assays.
Our expert service includes:
Customized
Differentiation Service
If you do not have an established differentiation protocol and may also need to source the hiPS cell line as starting point, our experts will be able to support you with a milestone based R&D project.
We have extensive knowledge in development of protocols or may have the required protocol readily available. With access to a huge network of partners and technologies, we can ensure the progress of such a custom R&D project generating your desired cell type.
Our highly modular expert service includes:
Examples
for our Inhouse-Differentiation-Capabilities
Ectoderm
Mesoderm
Endoderm