BC MCF7 cells were fostered in high-glucose DMEM (Abcam, Shanghai, China) added with 100 U/mL penicillin, 100 mg/L streptomycin, and 10% FBS (Abcam, Shanghai, China) under 5% CO2, floating in serum-free DMEM/F12 culture medium (Abcam) with 20 ng/mL EGF, 20 ng/mL b-FGF, and 2% B27 (Abcam). Then, we spent 10 days in culturing them within ultra-low attachment plates. miR-30d-5p mimics were synthesized within the GenePharma company (Shanghai, China). Additionally, they were transfected into cells using Lipofectamine 2000 reagent in Invitrogen (USA) in light of the methods of Liu, et al. [16 (link)].
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