Table 6 Selected suppliers of cells and tissues[18]
From: The market trend analysis and prospects of scaffolds for stem cells
Company | Product |
|---|---|
American Type Culture Collection(ATCC) | Supplies many types of cells lines and bioproducts. |
Asterand plc | Provides human biomaterials for drug testing(human primary cells and cell lines, RNA, tissue microarrays, frozen and fixed human tissues) |
ATCC-LCG Promochem Partnership | Facilitates distribution of ATCC culture and bioproducts to life science researchers in Europe |
BioE, | Multi-Lineage Progenitor cellTM, a human umbilical cord blood-derived, clonal, multipotent stem cell line; unique cell reagents. |
Life Technologies | Keratinocytes and other epithelial cells, endothelial cells, fibroblasts, etc. |
Cascade Biologics | Keratinocytes and other epithelial cells, endothelial cells, fibroblasts, etc. |
Cell Systems Biotechnologie Vertrieb GmbH | Cell biology products including human primary cells, 3D skin cell systems, and cell models for angiogenesis, blood-barrier, and inhalation toxicology. |
Lonza Group Ltd. | Primary human and animal cells with customized media systems, Clonetics® and Poietics® Cell Systems. |
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation(MTF) | Pieces of human bone, skin, and other tissues; FlexHD, an acellular dermal matrix, primarily for surgery. |
National Cancer Institute(NCI) | Tissues, cell lines, databases, arrays, etc. primarily for cancer research. |
National Cell Culture Center(NCCC) | Division of Biovest International; provides customized, large-scale cell culture services. |
National Disease Research Interchange(NDRI) | Human tissues, organs, and derivatives for research. |
National Stem Cell Bank(NSCB) at WiCell | Established to acquire, characterize and distribute the 21 human embryonic stem cell lines and their sub-clones to federally funded research programs; they currently have 13 of the 21 cell lines in the federal registry. |
NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry | Lists the derivations of stem cells that are eligible for federal funding and provides contact information for acquiring the cell lines. |
OnCore UK | Human specimens for cancer research |
ProBioGen AG | Specializes in mammalian cell engineering and cell culture: design of custom immortalized cell lines for vaccine and protein production, or for other customer needs. |
SciKon Innovation, Inc. | Human matrix cell culture surface; human stellates; human hepatocyte cryopriserved cells. |
Tebu-bio laboratories | Various cryopreserved primary cells; cell biology services such as cell amplification, differentiation, transfection, mycoplasma testing; establish cellular models overexpressing of silencing a protein of interest. |
Zen Bio | Human adult stem cells, preadipocytes, adipocytes, primary human hepatocytes; specialized media. |