Efficient and reproducible cell culture results are vital for successful differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) providing the need for reliable and robust solutions to not only support your cell lines but increase overall viability. The introduction of reproducible, feeder-free cultures up to MACS® GMP-grade, rapid enrichment of lineage-specific cells or multicolor phenotypic flow analysis not only provides the constant workflow support your cell cultures need to be successful but supports the flexibility and reproducibility needed for downstream applications.
Efficient and reproducible cell culture results are key for the successful differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) in disease modelling, drug screening, or cell therapy research. Our range of xeno-free media, high-quality growth factors, and small molecules provides you with reliable solutions for robust and reproducible stem cell culture.
StemMACS™ iPS-Brew XF Medium
When differentiating your pluripotent stem cells, you want to be sure that your cells are highly pluripotent and can readily differentiate into any downstream lineage. StemMACS iPS-Brew XF is a cell culture medium for PSCs that gives you full flexibility with your downstream differentiation protocols, e.g., cardiomyocyte or neural differentiation.
Expansion and maintenance of PSCs
StemMACS iPS-Brew XF is a xeno-free media formulation for the maintenance and expansion of PSCs under feeder-free conditions. It enables robust expansion over multiple passages, while cells maintain a pluripotent phenotype. PSCs can be differentiated into various cell types that display the desired phenotype, including for example cardiomyocytes and neural cells.
Application note
Performance of StemMACS iPS-Brew XF in the maintenance and neural differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells
Xun Cheng and Gavin Wang, Stem Cell Core, Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
Reproducible differentiation results with exact unit dosing of cytokines
MACS® Premium-Grade Cytokines come with the specific biological activity for each lot. This enables reproducible unit dosing and eliminates the need to test each new cytokine lot. Dosing cytokines in units removes one variable from your differentiation experiments and thereby increases reproducibility.
PSCs can differentiate into virtually any cell type in vitro. MACS MicroBead Technology allows for rapid isolation of cells from specific lineages at any time point during differentiation and can be used to deplete unwanted cells or enrich differentiated cells of interest.
Pure lineage-specific cells with MACS MicroBeads
Differentiation of PSCs into pure cell populations of interest can be greatly enhanced by magnetically isolating lineage-specific cells during the differentiation period. MACS MicroBead Technology provides a broad range of marker-specific cell enrichment solutions, such as the isolation of hepatocyte-like cells using the lineage-specific marker CXCR4.
Scientific poster
Highly efficient differentiation of hPSC into hepatocyte-like cells by selection of CXCR4 (CD184)+ definitive endoderm (DE) cells
Annett Kurtz, Andreas Bosio, and Sebastian Knoebe
Immunostaining and clearing of stem cell-derived cerebral organoids for 3D imaging analysis
- Keywords
- Sample preparation
- Imaging
- stem cells
- Neuroscience
- ES and IPS cells
- Application protocol
MBTP 22: Analysis of the trilineage differentiation potential of human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) using flow cytometry
- Keywords
- Flow cytometry and cell analysis
- Stem cell research
- human
- stem cells
- ES and IPS cells
- Antibody panel
- Application protocol
Differentiation, isolation, and analysis of cardiomyocytes derived from pluripotent stem cells
- Keywords
- Cell separation
- Cell culture
- Flow cytometry and cell analysis
- Cardiovascular research
- Stem cell research
- stem cells
- ES and IPS cells
- Application protocol
Maintenance and freezing of pluripotent stem cells
- Keywords
- Cell culture
- Flow cytometry and cell analysis
- human
- Stem cell research
- stem cells
- ES and IPS cells
- Application protocol
Flow cytometry-based quality control assay for PSC-derived midbrain dopaminergic neurons
- Keywords
- Flow cytometry and cell analysis
- Neuroscience
- brain
- neural cells
- stem cells
- ES and IPS cells
- Application protocol
Dissociation, culture, and analysis of cerebral organoids
- Keywords
- Sample preparation
- Flow cytometry and cell analysis
- Cell culture
- Imaging
- Neuroscience
- Stem cell research
- stem cells
- ES and IPS cells
- Application protocol
MBTP 25: Immunophenotyping of the pluripotency status of human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) using flow cytometry
- Keywords
- Flow cytometry and cell analysis
- Stem cell research
- stem cells
- ES and IPS cells
- human
- Antibody panel
- Application protocol
