A method of stimulating and controlling stem cell activity and differentiation on a modified material substrate and a device including the modified material substrate are provided. The method includes providing a material substrate configured for medical use. The material substrate includes at least one surface or interior area available for modification, and the at least one surface or interior area is treated with a plurality of pulsed light beams to obtain a modified material substrate with at least one modified surface or interior area. The at least one modified surface or interior area has a biomimetic architecture with surface and bulk (interior) features, properties, and textures configured to accelerate and control stem cell differentiation when the modified material substrate is contacted with stem cells.

A method of culturing Haematococcus species for manufacturing of astaxanthin comprising the steps of: providing a substrate, arranging the Haematococcus species on the surface of the substrate, exposing the Haematococcus species arranged on the substrate to high light intensities from the beginning of a culturing process and avoiding a two-step culturing process of the Haematococcus species with a first step which is an initial culturing taking place by exposure of the Haematococcus species to low light energy followed by a second step of subsequent culturing of the Haematococcus species by exposure of the Haematococcus species to higher light energy than applied in the first step to induce astaxanthin formation, and optionally—harvesting the cultured Haematococcus species and/or—isolating astaxanthin.

The present invention relates to a device and a method for inducing pluripotent cells using energy and, more specifically, has an effect of inducing new type pluripotent cells having pluripotent characteristics by applying energy such as ultrasonic waves, lasers or heat treatment to differentiated cells.

The present disclosure relates to microbial stem cell technology that enables a growing microbial culture to stably maintain two or more distinct cell types in a ratio that can be genetically programmed and/or dynamically controlled during cultivation. It is contemplated that embodiments described herein can be utilized to increase product yield in microbial fermentations and advanced engineering of biomaterials using genetically engineered microbial cells, among others.

Described herein are methods for selecting lymphocytes for adoptive cell therapy based on P-glycoprotein expression and compositions comprising same.

The present invention relates to a method for irradiating a population of mammalian cells comprising at least one target mammalian cell with electron beams and/or X-rays, characterized in that: (i) a composition comprising a population of mammalian cells is irradiated in vitro with electron beams and/or X-rays, the population of mammalian cells containing at least one target mammalian cell and the dose rate being within the range from 5 Gy/sec to 10.sup.7 Gy/sec, and (ii) optionally viable target mammalian cells are isolated or enriched from the population of mammalian cells, and to agents obtainable thereby and to uses thereof.

A preparation method of a tumor microparticle encapsulating a metabolic inhibitor includes following steps. A tumor cell is cultivated, and a statin drug is added to a culture medium after the tumor cell grows stably. Then, the tumor cell is irradiated with an ultraviolet, and then the tumor cell is incubated in a cell incubator for 22˜26 hours. After the incubation, cell supernatant is collected and the tumor microparticle encapsulating the metabolic inhibitor is obtained through a gradient centrifugation. The preparation method uses tumor cell-derived microparticles as drug delivery platforms, with a simple preparation process that preserves functions such as biosafety, biocompatibility, targeting, and intercellular communication. The preparation method discovers new uses of a statin drug, which can inhibit tumor growths with the statin drug, regulate tumors metabolism and improve a tumor microenvironment, and have a potential to enhance a chemotherapy efficacy and delay a chemotherapy resistance.

The present invention relates to methods for producing immuno-suppressive dendritic cells. The present invention further relates to the use of such cells for treating patients suffering from autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivity diseases, rejection on solid-organ transplantation and/or Graft-versus-Host disease.

A photocurable composition for 3D printing includes a) at least one photocurable prepolymer chosen from the group consisting of functionalized gelatin bearing a first functional group and functionalized decellularized extracellular matrix bearing a second functional group; b) at least one solvent, the solvent being formamide; and c) at least one photoinitiator.

A stem cell removing method that certainly-removes an undifferentiated stem cell is provided. For this object, a cell group including a stem cell and a somatic cell performed differentiation induction is cultivated in culture medium composition including photosensitizer. Light of a specific wavelength is irradiated with the cell group, and the stem cell is removed, selectively. The stem cell is a pluripotent stem cell or a somatic stem cell. The pluripotent stem cell includes either an ES cell (Embryonic Stem Cell) or an iPS cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell). Also, somatic stem cell includes any one of a germ stem cell, a productive cell, a pluripotent stem cell and a stem cell having unipotency.