| abstract |
Embodiments of chemically defined cell culture media containing nutrients and growth factors free of any serum for culturing cells such as mesenchymal stem cells and methods of using embodiments of the cell culture medium for expanding cell populations such as mesenchymal stem cells while maintaining a pluripotent phenotype and methods of inducing chondrogenesis and osteogenesis of mesenchymal stem cells by admixing differentiation factors into embodiments of the cell culture medium. |