A type of stem cell found in early embryos, which is capable of developing into all (totipotent) or a wide range of (pluripotent) different body tissues.
Engineered cells have been developed that can direct stem cells to form specific tissues and organoids, which may aid in the understanding and treatment of complex diseases...
Researchers have successfully treated a hole in the macula of a macaque monkey, using a sheet of cells derived from human embryonic stem cells...
Dr Roger Gosden comments from the USA on the new Code of Practice for the Generation and Use of Human Stem-Cell-Based Embryo Models...
A 2002 Nature paper claiming that adult stem cells from bone marrow can become nearly any cell type has been retracted by Nature, making it the most-cited retracted paper ever...
A stem cell-based therapy for Parkinson's disease entered higher dose clinical testing after a positive initial safety evaluation...
A chimeric monkey has been created using embryonic stem cells with two different sets of genes, a new study has demonstrated...
Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, leader of the team that created Dolly the sheep, has died at age 79...
Identifying the defining characteristics of different states of stem cell pluripotency could hold the key to improving human stem cell-based embryo models...
Scientists have reportedly created an embryo model from human stem cells with a heartbeat and traces of blood; features that typically appear in an embryo proper during the third or fourth week of pregnancy...
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