BioTime launches new bioreagents portal for stem cell researchers

Integrated with the GeneCards, MalaCards, and LifeMap Discovery databases, the new portal provides biomedical researchers access to these databases for identifying stem cell reagents.

The new portal also provides researchers access to BioTime’s research product lines including PureStem human progenitor cell lines, PureStem packages, clinical and research grade human embryonic stem cell lines (hES), HyStem hydrogels, culture media, and cell differentiation kits.

LifeMap Sciences marketing head Yaron Guan-Golan said there has been a growing interest in the PureStem and hES cell lines.

"Our ability to provide stable, characterized, pure, and scalable cell lines to the research community and to industry is a big step forward — not only in the study of stem cells, but also in the understanding of cellular and developmental biology and human disease, and in the discovery of new therapies," Guan-Golan added.

"Together with our LifeMap Discovery database, researchers will now be able to immediately obtain access to cutting-edge embryonic stem and progenitor cell lines as part of a wealth of developmental and stem cell information that they need for research."