Have you ever spent weeks or months pursuing a mysterious artifact in your culture only to discover that the cause was a reagent or culture media contaminated with bacterial endotoxin? You’re not alone. Continue reading for a cautionary tale on endotoxin contamination. Detecting a Problem: Clueing in on Endotoxin Contamination We encountered an endotoxin contamination…
New to our ever-expanding immune cell inventory is a CMV-Specific CD4+ T Cell Line, available in large batches of 1–2M cells/vial. Our CMV-specific T cells have been extremely popular among our customers for years, but have only been available as CD8+ cell lines until now. As immunologists, we naturally think of CD8+ T cells when…
MMRF Funds Critical Research Relying on Patients Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation + NexImmune Partnership MMRF’s mission to advance new multiple myeloma therapy into clinical trials for MM patients includes a new formal partnership with NexImmune. A world leader in cancer research, the MMRF’s investment will advance NexImmune’s promising immuno oncology drug candidate NEXI-002 and support…
As a buyer of human and animal immune cell products, you trust that your biomaterials will be handled with care and precision throughout the collection, processing, characterization, and cryopreservation processes. We understand how immensely important cell quality is to the efficacy and timeliness of your research efforts, which is why we are completely transparent with…
T-Scan: A genome-wide method for the systematic discovery of T cell epitopes Kula et al. describe a new method for discovering T cell epitopes that does not require the culture of T cells and allows for precise mapping of T cells to the peptides they recognize. Cellero Cells Used: PBMC Inhibitory effect of Acer tegmentosum…
Do you have a pesky little habit you just can’t kick? One that’s hard to ignore because you’re reminded of it everywhere you turn? Your friends are doing it, your colleagues are doing it, even your parents are doing it! (If they are research scientists.) We are, of course, talking about the habit of focusing…
Immune therapy to fight cancer specifically programs a patient’s own immune system to target & destroy invading disease cells. The ability of immunotherapy to more strategically combat cancer than general cancer treatments do is only now being fully understood. And as scientists excitedly recognize immunotherapies’ potential is far greater than first imagined, donor blood cells…
Great news for those of you who have been waiting for new T regulatory cells (Tregs): We have hundreds of vials back in stock ready for overnight shipping to your lab! Head over to our product listings to see our current inventory. Induced Tregs Natural Tregs New to Tregs? Learn About Your Options. As…
What Is Surface Antigen Expression? Surface antigens, or cell markers, are a handy way for scientists to classify cells based on cell type and function, which is beneficial for early-stage research as well as disease diagnosis and treatment. The cluster of differentiation (CD) nomenclature was adopted in the early 1980s and serves as a global…
Mice have long been used as a model system for studying the human immune system, from which many basic principles of immunology have been uncovered. As discoveries made using mouse models show promise for therapeutic development for human patients, human-mouse models can serve as an ideal model of the human immune system prior to clinical…