Cell culture medium and method for culturing stem cells and progenitor cells

The invention relates to a stem cell culture medium that is deficient in both glucose and inositol. As expected most cells die rapidly as in media deficient in both glucose and inositol. However, in particular somatic stem cells and germ line stem cells are surprisingly capable of survival and growth under these conditions, while maintaining their regenerative potential Thus, the cell culture medium according to the invention allows not only culturing and amplifying but also purification and enrichment of the above mentioned stem cells as most differentiated cells will not survive in the medium.

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Patents:
AT 479,741

Inventor(s): CROSS MICHAEL [DE]; ALT RUEDIGER [DE]

Type of Offer: Sale



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