TrulyStem

Kit for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Characterization

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The most important characteristic of ESCs is their pluripotency, or ability to differentiate into all three primitive cell lineages in the body -- endoderm, ectoderm and mesoderm. In other words, they can develop into each of the more than 200 cell types of the adult body when given sufficient and necessary stimulation for a specific cell type. Researchers working with hESCs must continually screen them to ascertain pluripotency. The TrulyStem kit is a robust and sensitive multi marker quantitative real-time PCR method, with which you can measure 13 genes regulated upon differentiation. The relative differentiation state of the cells can be determined by calculating a collective expression index based on the mRNA levels of the genes from your cells and the provided cDNA controls.

Materials included

• Primer solutions for 13 stem cell differentiation markers. 100 rxns.

• Positive Control cDNA from non-differentiated stem cells, cell lineage AS002. 13 rxns, one reaction for each gene.

• Negative Control cDNA from differentiated stem cells, cell lineage AS002. 13 rxns, one reaction for each gene.

• The addition of real-time PCR regents is necessary. Primer sets are validated for use with most commercial available master mixes for qPCR containing SYBR Green I.

Contacts and ordering

The TrulyStem Kit can be ordered from our distribution partners around the world.

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