Essential 8™ and Essential 6™ a feeder-free, xeno-free system for reprogramming and culture of PSC's

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Channel: Thermo Fisher Scientific · 2014 · Science & Technology

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Dr. Nirupama (Rupa) Shevde, customer training manager at Life Technologies, presents an overview of the  Essential media system in our on-demand webinar. Essential 8™ Medium and Vitronectin (VTN-N) is the only xeno-free induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) culture system to utilize the original formulation developed by Dr. Guokai Chen et al. in the laboratory of Dr.  James Thomson.

In this one-hour webinar, you'll learn how:
• Essential 8™ Medium:
 - Can be used in conjunction with multiple substrates and provides a complete solution for the culture of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs)
 - Allows for the successful transition of cells cultured in a variety of other media
 - Can transition cells from feeder and feeder-free systems
• Essential 6™ Medium can be used for the derivation of new iPSC lines and embryoid body formation

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