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ArticleStem cell reports2017

CryoPause: A New Method to Immediately Initiate Experiments after Cryopreservation of Pluripotent Stem Cells.

Karen G Wong, Sean D Ryan, Kiran Ramnarine, Siera A Rosen, Shannon E Mann, Amanda Kulick, Elisa De Stanchina, Franz-Josef Müller, Thadeous J Kacmarczyk, Chao Zhang and 2 more

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Article in Stem cell reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Karen G WongThe SKI Stem Cell Research Facility, The Center for Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Sean D RyanThe SKI Stem Cell Research Facility, The Center for Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Kiran RamnarineThe SKI Stem Cell Research Facility, The Center for Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Siera A RosenThe SKI Stem Cell Research Facility, The Center for Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Shannon E MannThe SKI Stem Cell Research Facility, The Center for Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Amanda KulickThe Antitumor Assessment Core Facility, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Elisa De StanchinaThe Antitumor Assessment Core Facility, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Franz-Josef MüllerZentrum für Integrative Psychiatrie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel, Niemannsweg 147, 24105 Kiel, Germany.
Thadeous J KacmarczykDivision of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine and Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Chao ZhangDivision of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine and Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Doron BetelDivision of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine and Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Mark J TomishimaThe SKI Stem Cell Research Facility, The Center for Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: tomishim@mskcc.org.

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Hongbiao Carl Lekaye · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) provide an unlimited cell source for cell therapies and disease modeling. Despite their enormous power, technical aspects have hampered reproducibility. Here, we describe a modification of PSC workflows that eliminates a major variable for nearly all PSC experiments: the quality and quantity of the PSC starting material. Most labs continually passage PSCs and use small quantities after expansion, but the "just-in-time" nature of these experiments means that quality control rarely happens before use. Lack of quality control could compromise PSC quality, sterility, and genetic integrity, which creates a variable that might affect results. This method, called CryoPause, banks PSCs as single-use, cryopreserved vials that can be thawed and immediately used in experiments. Each CryoPause bank provides a consistent source of PSCs that can be pre-validated before use to reduce the possibility that high levels of spontaneous differentiation, contamination, or genetic integrity will compromise an experiment.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiological Specimen BanksCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyCell DifferentiationCell LineCryopreservationGene EditingHumansMicePluripotent Stem Cellscell bankingcell therapycryopreservationdirected differentiationdisease modelinghuman pluripotent stem cellquality control

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PMID28602613
PMCPMC5511100

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