Videos & Webinars

This video discusses the colony-forming cell (CFC) or colony-forming unit (CFU) assays, 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. Watch other videos here.

In this webinar, Dr. Jenna Capyk provides a comparison of limiting dilution cloning and semi-solid cloning with respect to their application to cell line development and the probability of monoclonality for the cultures that are isolated using these methods. Watch other videos here.

This video demonstrates how to differentiate primary human bronchial epithelial cells into a pseudostratified mucociliary epithelium using air-liquid interface culture techniques and PneumaCult™-ALI medium. Watch other videos here.

This webinar video by Dr. Mark Ungrin describes how AggreWell™ can be used to make uniform embryoid bodies from hESC and hiPSC as well as other cell types. Watch other videos here.

This webinar video explains the principles of ALDEFLUOR™ technology, offers literature review and summary of technical considerations of performing and interpreting ALDEFLUOR™ assays on primary tissues and tumor cell lines. Watch other videos here.