Kansai Medical University Graduate School of Medicine

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Developmental Biology

An Automated Culture System for Maintaining and Differentiating Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Kazunori Bando¹, Hiromi Yamashita¹, Fumiyuki Hattori¹

¹Innovative Regenerative Medicine, Kansai Medical University Graduate School of Medicine

Here, we present a protocol for an automated cell culture system. This automated culture system reduces labor and benefits the users, including researchers unfamiliar with handling induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, from the maintenance of iPS cells to differentiation into various types of cells.