Issue 37, 2022

A polymer-based chemical tongue for the non-invasive monitoring of osteogenic stem-cell differentiation by pattern recognition of serum-supplemented spent media

Abstract

The development of non-invasive techniques to characterize cultured cells is invaluable not only to ensure the reproducibility of cell research, but also for quality assurance of industrial cell products for purposes such as regenerative medicine. Here, we present a polymer-based ‘chemical tongue’, i.e., a biosensing technique that mimics the human taste system, that is capable of non-invasively generating fluorescence response patterns that reflect the proteins secreted, and also partially consumed, by cultured cells, even from serum-supplemented media containing abundant interferants. Analysis of the spent media collected during cell culture using our chemical tongue, which consists of cationic polymers of different scaffolds appended with environmentally responsive dansyl fluorophores, led to the successful (i) identification of human-derived cell lines, (ii) monitoring of the differentiation process of stem cells, even at the stage when conventional staining was negative, and (iii) detection of cancer-cell contamination in stem cells. Since the characterization of cultured cells is usually performed via invasive methods that result in cell death, our chemical-tongue approach, which is of high practical utility, will offer a new means of addressing the growing demand for highly controlled cell production in the medical and environmental fields.

Graphical abstract: A polymer-based chemical tongue for the non-invasive monitoring of osteogenic stem-cell differentiation by pattern recognition of serum-supplemented spent media

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
21 mar 2022
Accepted
07 may 2022
First published
11 may 2022

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2022,10, 7581-7590

A polymer-based chemical tongue for the non-invasive monitoring of osteogenic stem-cell differentiation by pattern recognition of serum-supplemented spent media

S. Tomita, S. Ishihara and R. Kurita, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2022, 10, 7581 DOI: 10.1039/D2TB00606E

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