Webinar: A Fast and Simple Hematopoietic Colony-Forming Cell Assay for Cord Blood Banks

Colony-forming cell (CFC) or colony-forming unit (CFU) assays are the most commonly used assays to measure the frequency and proliferative ability of hematopoietic cells in cell preparations used for transplantation. In unrelated umbilical cord blood (CB) transplantation, total CFC numbers after thawing of CB units has been demonstrated to correlate more strongly with recovery and survival than other parameters, such as CFC numbers before cryopreservation, TNC counts and CD34+ cell numbers. To measure the total CFC content of a cord blood sample, it is not necessary to distinguish colony types, and therefore it is not necessary to culture the cells for 14 -16 days until colonies have fully matured. In this webinar, we will discuss MethoCult® Express. This new MethoCult® medium is formulated for faster CFC assays for hematopoietic progenitors in CB, which allows total colonies to be counted as early as after 7 days, instead of the 14 - 16 days of conventional CFC assays.

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