Educational Materials

Cleaning Your RoboSep™ Tip Head RoboSep™, fully automated cell separator, is virtually maintenance free, but it is vital to polish the tip head to ensure tips are stripped properly
Neural Induction of hPSCs Using the Embryoid Body Method STEMdiff™ Neural Induction Medium is a defined, serum-free medium for the efficient & reproducible derivation of neural progenitor cells
Generate Size-Controlled Spheroids and Embryoid Bodies Using AggreWell™ Microwell Plates AggreWell™ plates provide an easy and standardized approach to control size of embryoid bodies (EBs) for differentiation by adjusting initial cell input
Coating Plates with Matrigel® for Pluripotent Stem Cell Culture Culturing and maintaining human ESCs and iPSCs with mTeSR™1 (Catalog #5850) or TeSR™2 (Catalog #05860) requires tissue culture plates coated with a matrix
Vitronectin XF™ Defined Matrix for Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Technical tip from our dedicated team of Product and Scientific Support specialists
Tap Your Way to Easy Pluripotent Stem Cell Passaging Using ReLeSR™ Technical tip from our dedicated team of Product and Scientific Support specialists
Tips for Reprogramming Somatic Cells using TeSR™-E7™ Tips to help resolve 2 common issues encountered when reprogramming fibroblasts using TeSR™-E7™
Optimization of ALDEFLUOR™ Assay for Detection of ALDH Activity in Your Cell Type of Interest ALDEFLUOR™ reagent system is a non-immunological method to identify human stem and progenitor cells based on their aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) activity
DNase I Treatment for Clumpy Cell Suspensions To reduce cell clumping and minimize presence of free-floating DNA fragments, we recommend adding DNase I Solution (Catalog #07900) to the cell suspension
Creating a Hypoxic Environment for Cell Culture For inducing low oxygen tension for cell culture, STEMCELL offers the Hypoxia Incubator Chamber (Catalog #27310)
How to Reduce Hematopoietic Cell Contamination in Primary Mouse Mesenchymal Stem Cell Cultures MesenCult™ Proliferation Kit with MesenPure™ reduces hematopoietic cell contamination in primary mouse mesenchymal stem cell cultures
Don't Want to Use Serum? Alternatives for Cell Separation Buffers When isolating cells using EasySep™ or RoboSep™ cell separation systems, the recommended buffer is 2% FBS in Phosphate Buffered Saline w/ 1 mM EDTA