Maintaining the primary cells in culture sometimes is very difficult task. Some normal and malignant cells types just don’t grow well in culture. It makes very difficult cell-based diagnostics and therapy development. Recently, the group of researchers proposed the method, which allows to overcome this problem. They called it “conditional immortalization”. From Science Daily: “We tried breast cells and they grew well. We tried prostate cells and their growth was fantastic, which is amazing because it is normally impossible to [...]
This question is currently highly discussed in professional communities. Professionals think that too strict or/ and unclear regulation system is one of the main hurdles in translation of cell therapy and stem cell research into the clinic. The FDA is a regulatory agency which approves the use of biological products (including cells) and drugs for medical use in US. Even though the FDA has a set of rules for cell products in place, in some cases there is still misunderstanding [...]
