Methods, systems, and compositions are provided for extracting bone marrow cells from bone obtained from deceased donors, for preparing the bone marrow for cryopreservation, and for obtaining desired cells from cryopreserved and fresh bone marrow

The present invention relates to stem cell-derived microvesicles with enhanced efficacy, a use thereof, and a method for enhancing efficacy, and more particularly, to a use of stem cell-derived microvesicles with an enhanced expression level of microRNAs for the prevention or treatment of stroke, and a method for promoting the production of microRNAs of stem cell-derived microvesicles and enhancing efficacy, and a method for promoting the production of stem cell-derived microvesicles and microRNAs within the microvesicles and enhancing the efficacy of stem cells and microvesicles thereof by 3-dimensionally culturing or ischemically stimulating stem cells. Since the method according to the present invention has excellent effects capable of promoting the production of stem cell-derived microvesicles and microRNAs in the microvesicles and capable of enhancing the efficacy of stem cells or microvesicles isolated therefrom, it is possible to obtain stem cell-derived microvesicles containing high levels of materials including therapeutic microRNAs efficiently and in large quantities through this, and thus, the microvesicles are expected to be able to be usefully used in related research fields and future clinical settings.

The subject invention pertains to a device and methods for inducing tensile strain on a hydrogel and/or hydrogel-encapsulated cells and/or tissues. The device includes a hydrogel-based mold for cell culture and a magnet-combined rail slider for cyclic tensile stretch. The resulting hydrogel-based device provides controllable tensile strain to cells and/tissues, from which cells and/or tissues can be encapsulated in hydrogels and strain can be applied cyclically.

Algae-containing beads comprising a microorganism such as unicellular microalgae, an insoluble carbon source such as char, water, and a crosslinked organic matrix. The beads can further contain clay, such as kaolin.

A three-dimensional culture method for large-scale preparation of stem cells, comprising a three-dimensional microcarrier-based cell resuscitation method, a three-dimensional microcarrier cell culture-based in situ passage method, a three-dimensional microcarrier in situ freeze preservation method for cells, a three-dimensional microcarrier cell adsorption culture method, a method for harvesting cells on a three-dimensional microcarrier, a method for sampling cells cultured on a microcarrier, and a three-dimensional microcarrier-based cell large-scale expansion method.

A production method for pluripotent stem cells is provided, the method including the following (a) and (b): (a) a process filling a culture container with a liquid medium and thereafter raising, the temperature of the liquid medium in the culture container to the temperature at which pluripotent stem cells can proliferate; and (b) a process seeding pluripotent stem cells in the liquid medium in the culture container and culturing the pluripotent stem cells in suspension.

Provided herein are novel organoid culture media, organoid culture systems, and methods of culturing tumor organoids using the subject organoid culture media. Also provided herein are tumor organoids developed using such organoid culture systems, methods for assessing the clonal diversity of the tumor organoids, and methods for using such tumor organoids, for example, for tumor modelling and drug development applications. In particular embodiments, the tumor organoid culture media provided herein is substantially free of R-spondins (e.g., R-spondin1).

Disclosed herein are three-dimensional bone tissue grafts produced from stacked demineralized bone paper. Also disclosed are methods for treating a subject using tissue grafts produced from the disclosed demineralized bone paper. Also disclosed are assay systems that involves culturing bone-promoting cells on the disclosed demineralized bone paper.

The present invention relates to a composite membrane. The composite membrane includes: an elastic polymer substrate having a first surface processed by a surface modification; and a thermosensitive conductive layer formed on the first surface by performing a co-polymerization process, allowing an electrical current to pass through, and altering a hydrophilicity of a membrane surface in response to a change of a temperature.

Provided herein are methods of culturing organized skeletal muscle tissue from precursor muscle cells by cyclically stretching and relaxing said muscle cells on a support in vitro for a time sufficient to produce said organized skeletal muscle tissue, including reseeding said organized skeletal muscle tissue by contacting additional precursor muscle cells to said organized skeletal muscle tissue on said solid support, and then repeating said step of cyclically stretching and relaxing said muscle cells in said support in vitro for time sufficient to enhance the density (i.e., increased number of nuclei and/or number of multinucleated cells) of said organized skeletal muscle tissue on said support.