Describes a cell capable of developing into any type of cell or tissue except those that form a placenta or embryo.
Professor Sir John Gurdon, pioneer of developmental biology and Nobel Prize winner, has died aged 92...
Ten out of 12 patients no longer require insulin treatment for type 1 diabetes one year after receiving stem cell-derived pancreatic islet cells...
Gonadotrophs, cells in the pituitary gland involved in regulating puberty and reproduction, have a dual origin and are primarily produced after birth in mice, researchers have found....
Swapping one sugar for another leads stem cells to become 'fitter and younger' versions of themselves, new research has revealed...
How ageing induces iron insufficiency, reduces stem cell renewal and tumour formation has been discovered...
Functional mouse induced pluripotent stem cells were generated using genes originating in an ancient unicellular organism and injected into a mouse embryo to create chimeric mice...
Stem cell lines from multiple human donors have been combined to create 3D brain organoids for the first time...
Inactivating a gene that codes for a protein involved in early mouse development results in the formation of two extra hindlimbs in the place of external genitalia...
Human pluripotent stem cells have been used to create a complete model of the human central nervous system and mirror its early stages of development in vitro...
Viral genetic material, integrated into our DNA millions of years ago, has an essential role in a key early stage in embryo development...
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