Improved Pluripotent Cell Safety with Microfluid Cell Sorter

Published 2024-02-07

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research have developed a microfluid chips to improve the safety of pluropotent cell administration. The chip is designed to eliminate pluripotent stem cells which have not differentiated to the desired and neccessary progenitor cells stage. The remaining immature plouripotent stem cells could pose a risk of cancer development. The high throughput device is capable of sorting 500 million cells per minute. The findings are published in the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine.