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 ...

Lab-grown "bodyoids" could transform medical research and organ transplants, but raise ethical questions about defining human ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

Take geckos, for example, who will replace all 100 ... Humans have these stem cells when we're younger. But after our adult teeth grow in, the stem cells die and disappear. To understand why ...

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