Rockland Immunochemicals, Inc. (Rockland) announces the availability of a new collection of human melanoma cell lines that have been developed and characterized over several decades in the laboratory of Meenhard Herlyn, D.V.M., D.Sc., Caspar Wistar Professor in Melanoma Research, Director of the Melanoma Research Center, and professor in the Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. More than one hundred of these human melanoma cell lines will now be grown and exclusively distributed by Rockland. This new agreement results from a partnership between the institutions, which was announced in July 2015.
The collection represents a diverse panel of highly-characterized cell lines. Historically, a number of tumor model systems have lacked scientific value due to the limited characterization of genetic drivers, gene and protein expression, and in vitro/in vivo data. With these human melanoma cell lines, in vitro and in vivo modeling is brought into practice. The ...
