For example, “induced pluripotent stem cells,” which can be made from normal skin cells, are splendid for use in cell modeling and drug testing. But Prentice’s primary focus is on adult stem ...

But the adult stem cells are more limited in the types of cell they can make. For example bone marrow stem cells only form different types of blood cells. Plants have stem cells too. They're found ...

A paralyzed man received an injection of reprogrammed stem cells that helped him stand and move on his own again.

It may seem unusual to discuss future fertility when a family is reeling from the diagnosis of a child’s cancer. But 85% of ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type—the blood stem cell. An ...

An international research team, led by scientists from Tel Aviv University and Sheba Medical Center, has unveiled an ...

Techniques that cause multipotent adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to differentiate ... and gene therapy). An example of the repair of articular cartilage defects by use of a hydrogel seeded ...

For example, in adult mammal brains ... typically every few days. Whenever stem cells are called upon to generate a particular type of cell, they undergo an asymmetric cell division.