The world’s first stem cell register was set up by Shirley Nolan in her determination to save her son’s life by finding him a ...

A study has shown that a type of non-coding RNA molecule could play a role in the development of skin diseases—like eczema or ...

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Researchers have discovered that DNA methylation is crucial for reprogramming astrocytes into stem cells in the adult mouse ...

Stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into more mature, specialised cells. Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent ...

Fourteen-year-old Faith Brown was greeted with bubbles and noise makers from exuberant doctors, nurses and staff, as she and ...

Stem cells are immature cells that have the ability, under the right conditions, to develop into many types of cells in the body with specialized functions. Here you can learn how they’re being ...

today we understand the earliest stages of human development quite well and can therefore differentiate stem cells into different specialized cells and mini-tissues in the laboratory. In addition, ...

Embryonic stem cells (ESCs or ES cells) are cells from the early embryonic development, from which all cells and organs of an individual descend. Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, meaning that ...

Ultimately, human cells better reflect human diseases.” Pluripotent Stem cells are non-specialised cells which have no set designation but, given the right environment, have the potential to develop ...

Stem cells are the progenitors of all specialized cells in the body. Blood stem cells (hematopoietic cells) reside in bone marrow and continuously produce a variety of blood and immune system cells.

Phagocytosis – eliminating millions of dead cells every day – requires specialized cells such as macrophages ... discovered when they investigated hair follicle stem cells (HFSCs), a tissue in ...