CytoSMART Technologies today announced the launch of an automated organoid counter. The software application detects organoids using bright-field image analysis and runs on the Corning® Cell Counter, a CytoSMART product.
As with other in vivo tissues, stem cell niches are an hypoxic environment and exhibit oxygen levels that are notably lower than the ambient environment. Indeed, in most tissues, physiological normoxia ranges from <1-9% oxygen, and stem cell niches are no different. Hypoxia chambers can help to emulate these environments.
In this presentation we will explain what the different biosafety levels (BSL) are in a lab. We will explain in depth what the different safety measures are in these biosafety levels.
Cell migration is an essential process involved in important physiological processes such as embryogenesis, angiogenesis, wound healing and the immune response. Cells migrate in different modes depending on the type and function of the cells. Leukocytes, for example, migrate the majority of their life span as single cells within virtually any tissue in the body. Many other cell types only move at specific situations to place, shape or repair tissue. Most of these cells move in groups that are loosely or closely associated. This type of migration is called collective cell migration. In this article, different modes of both single cell migration and collective cell migration are discussed.
The wound-healing assay is a convenient and economical method to investigate collective cell migration under different experimental conditions. As collective cell migration is linked to many physiological and pathological processes related to embryogenesis, wound repair and cancer metastasis, the wound healing assay is broadly applicable. We discuss how to set up an experiment and several options to analyze imaging data.