Gelatin

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Cat Number

CHE9000708

CAS Number

9000-70-8

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CAS Number

9000-70-8

EINECS

232-554-6

Storage

Store at 2-8℃

Appearance

Yellow light powder

General Description

Gelatin is the collagen obtained by partial hydrolysis of collagen from the skin, bones, and connective tissues of animals. Raw materials used to produce gelatin are usually obtained from cattle, pigs, fish, and poultry. Gelatin is unique due to its gelling, thickening and stabilizing properties. Gelatin dissolves in hot water. It is odorless, tasteless and forms a gel when cooled.

Application

Gelatin is used in the food industry as a gelling agent, thickener and stabilizer in products such as gummy bear candies, marshmallows, yogurt and others. Gelatin-based foods provide a unique eating quality described as "melt-in-the-mouth", which is difficult to match with gelatin alternatives derived from plants. Gelatin plays an important role in pharmaceutical manufacturing by way of creating hard shell and soft capsules and is also the binding agent for light-sensitive silver halide crystals used in photographic film emulsion. Gelatin is used in medicine as a wound dressing and tissue engineering because of its biocompatibility.

Spheroid culture systems represent a highly beneficial method for tissue regeneration, disease modeling, and therapeutic purposes. However, conventional spheroid cultures are challenged by uncontrollable cellular proliferation and growth rate, size, structural simplicity, and ultimately core apoptosis due to restricted nutrient diffusion. Hence, the objective of this work is to introduce an ultra-small gelatin nanoparticle (GNP)-assisted stem cell culture system that enables the formation of compact spheroids while promoting intra-/intercellular functionality. Exceptionally biocompatible GNPs ranging from 80–150 nm are engineered with distinct characteristics that facilitate cell–cell and cell-ECM interactions, leading to increased functionality in stem cell spheroids. Fabricated GNP-stem cell spheroids exhibit enhanced cell viability, proliferation capacity, and cellular complexity when compared to traditional stem cell spheroid cultures. Additionally, fabricated GNP-stem cell spheroids' time-dependent regeneration efficiency was evaluated at both hard and soft tissue defects. Overall, these discoveries suggest GNP-stem cell spheroids' contribution to expedited bone and skin regeneration. These novel discoveries pave the way towards GNP-enhanced stem cell spheroids as the next step in regenerative medicine beyond traditional 3D stem cell therapeutics and novel tissue engineering/biomedical applications.

Fig. 2 Ultra-tiny GNPs incorporated with MSC spheroids as a therapeutic platform for enhanced tissue regeneration. (Kim D, et al. 2025)

References

Kim D, et al. Ultra‐tiny gelatin nanoparticles‐assisted 3D stem cell spheroids for engineering tissue regeneration. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 2025: 2501882.

How should I store the Gelatin?

Keep Gelatin in a cool, dry, and well-ventilated area to maintain its chemical stability and shelf life.

Is Gelatin sensitive to temperature fluctuations?

Extreme heat can damage Gelatin; maintaining a consistent room temperature is ideal for preserving its functional gelling properties.

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