You may have known us as HyClone - a business with nearly 40 years of experience in the cell-culture industry. Now we have even more to offer you as part of the new Thermo Fisher Scientific, created by the merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific in November of 2006. Transitioning to the Thermo Scientific brand, HyClone is committed to providing researchers globally with the most advanced tools to facilitate and advance their research.

As a leading supplier of HyClone sera, media, and other cell culture reagents, Thermo Fisher Scientific strives to keep abreast of innovations and advances in cell culture and to obtain a degree of knowledge and expertise in the major areas of research utilizing cell culture. One such area is the culture of ESCs. The number of studies using ESCs has increased considerably over the past few decades with a corresponding increase in the demand for specialty sera and media specific for these applications.

The market and financial strength of this organization enhances our ability to innovate and respond to your evolving needs. And, the combination creates a broad portfolio of complementary products and services that can be integrated with ours to improve your efficiency.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is privileged to support your endeavors in stem cell research. We are committed to providing you with the highest quality products to help you advance your research in the understanding of these cells, which we strongly believe will better the human condition by bringing new therapeutics and cures for human disease.

While our product labels and packaging have transitioned to the Thermo Scientific brand, our commitment to you and the integrity of our products will continue.

Stem cell research has rapidly advanced during the past several years, primarily due to the promise of therapeutics derived from stem cells. Stem cells are defined by two criteria common to all stem cells: Their ability for prolonged proliferation in an undifferentiated state, or "self-renewal," and, their ability to differentiate into more than one type of specialized, differentiated cell type.

Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are pluripotent stem cells that have been derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst-stage embryo. They have the ability to differentiate from the three germ layers of cells - ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm - into cells of all types found in the adult mammal. Able to maintain very long term growth in culture, these cells also have the ability to maintain a normal karyotype and retaining all the pluripotency-associated markers.

First isolated in 1981, murine embryonic stem cells, or “ES cells,” are used to produce mouse models of human disease that aid in the understanding of and in the development of therapies for genetic diseases in humans. The discovery and use of mouse ES cells and associated technology that allows the precise modification of individual genes has had such a major impact on biomedical research that the three scientists who laid the ground work for the use of mouse ES cells and the associated gene targeting technology were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine. We are now pleased to offer murine embryonic stem cells from Primogenix, Inc.

Somatic stem cells, sometimes called adult stem cells (ASCs), have been found to persist in their undifferentiated state in embryonic and adult tissues. These cells can be derived from different parts of the body and, depending on their origin, have different properties and capacity for generating a variety of progeny. However, they are limited in quantity, and have a limited number of cell types that they can differentiate into. Now, through our agreement with Cellular Engineering Technologies, we offer a comprehensive line of Human Somatic Stem Cells as well as specialized formulations for the expansion and differentiation of these cells.

 

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