The present invention provides a medium composition containing deacylated gellan gum or a salt thereof, and an acidic polysaccharide or a salt thereof capable of maintaining a random coil state in a divalent metal cation medium and cross-linking via a divalent metal ion, and permitting culture of a cell or a tissue in suspension, wherein a concentration of the deacylated gellan gum or a salt thereof in the medium composition is 0.002-0.01 (w/v) %, a concentration of the acidic polysaccharide or a salt thereof is 0.004-0.1 (w/v) %, and a mass ratio of the acidic polysaccharide or a salt thereof to the deacylated gellan gum or a salt thereof is not less than 1. In addition, the present invention provides a method for isolating a cell or tissue from a culture preparation containing the medium composition and cell or tissue, including applying a shear force to the culture preparation.

It is described a composite hydrogel containing egg white and alginate (EWA) polymers, and a method of producing same, wherein the alginate is cross-linked using frozen calcium chloride disks, creating a scaffold for cells comprising a slow-rate ions diffusion through the matrix, ensuring a homogenous crosslink and smooth surface.

A rapid method for preparing stem cell and physiologically acceptable matrix compositions for use in tissue and organ repair is described. Compared with previous tissue engineering materials, the stem cell-matrix compositions of the present invention do not require long-term incubation or cultivation in vitro prior to use in in vivo applications. The stem cells can be from numerous sources and may be homogeneous, heterogeneous, autologous, and/or allogeneic in the matrix material. The stem cell-matrix compositions provide point of service utility for the practitioner, wherein the stem cells and matrix can be combined not long before use, thereby alleviating costly and lengthy manufacturing procedures. In addition, the stem cells offer unique structural properties to the matrix composition which improves outcome and healing after use. Use of stem cells obtained from muscle affords contractility to the matrix composition.

The invention relates to the discovery that the proliferation and survival of pancreatic progenitor cells can be enhanced by contacting the cells with, (1) a caspase inhibitor sufficient to reduce apoptosis in the pancreatic endocrine cells; and, (2) a growth factor in an amount sufficient to increase the level of activated Akt in the pancreatic endocrine cells.

The invention relates to medicine and biology, particularly to the means for artificial manufacturing of biological tissues and organs, and can be used in biotechnology, bioengineering, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and in the 3D-printing of biological tissues and organs. Technical character of the invention consists in the development of a method of printing living tissues and organs as well as of the apparatus for its implementation. The proposed apparatus consists of at least: a printing platform, a bioink printing module with at least one nozzle designed for bioink dosing, a gel-forming composition printing module, containing a UV-module, and at least one nozzle capable of dosing gel-forming composition that starts polymerizing under the influence of UV radiation, a module for relatively displacing the nozzles and/or the platform, and in which the bioink printing module is separated from the gel-forming-composition printing module in such a way so as to prevent UV radiation from reaching the bioink printing module, the radiation from the UV module being directed predominantly parallel to the platform for printing, in such a way so as to prevent UV radiation from reaching the biological tissues and/or organs being printed. The technical result of the invention is the development of a multi-functional device capable of combining various printing modes, providing a method of high-resolution printing of living tissues and organs based on UV-induced hydrogel polymerization, and a method of cell protection from UV radiation during the printing process.

Provided herein are improved methods of decellularizing pancreas and other tissues. The methods according to some embodiments are water-based and may be detergent-free, allowing for the production of acellular scaffolds whereby the matrisome is better preserved. Compositions comprising decellularized tissue and methods of use thereof are also provided.

A composition comprising a first material and a second material, wherein said first material is cross-linkable by a first cross-linking reaction and said second material is cross-linkable by a second cross-linking reaction, wherein said first cross-linking reaction and said second cross-linking reaction are inducible by a common activator.

Provided is a three-dimensional culture structure that is excellent in cell adhesion and cell stretching and can be produced efficiently. The three-dimensional culture structure includes cells, a cell support material configured to support the cells, and bioaffinity particles. In a preferable mode, the bioaffinity particles are exposed from at least part of the surface of the cell support material, or the bioaffinity particles are protruded from the cell support material, or a surface area occupation rate at which the bioaffinity particles are exposed is 20% or greater of the entire surface of the three-dimensional culture structure, or the bioaffinity particles are dispersed in the cell support material.

The present invention is directed to the use of microfluidics in the preparation of cells and compositions for therapeutic uses.

This invention relates to live cell constructs for in vitro and/or ex vivo production of cultured milk products from mammary cells, methods of producing isolated cultured milk products from mammary cells, bioreactors for producing isolated cultured milk products, and cultured milk products.