Adults don't have any embryonic stem cells, but they do still have stem cells - they're essential for replacing or repairing normal cells which become damaged, or worn out. But the adult stem ...

Stem cells are special in the way they can keep on replicating, and turn themselves into many other types of cell.

Research on stem cells is ongoing, but they're approved to treat a certain group of diseases. Here's what doctors say about ...

And adult stem cells are starting to be used as vehicles for genetic therapies, such as for epidermolysis bullosa. If this progress had been derived from embryonic stem cells, the headlines would ...

Alden P. Johnson, O.D. A: Dear Alden, As a scientist I have to answer that both adult and embryonic stem cells have to be studied extensively and in parallel, as both have something to teach us ...

outer cell mass and inner cell mass. Embryonic stem cells are derived from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst. Embryonic stem cells in culture are capable of self-renewal without ...

In terms accessible to lay readers, the book summarizes what we know about adult and embryonic stem cells and discusses how to go about the transition from mouse studies to research that has ...

Advocates counter that adult stem cells, useful as they may be for some diseases, have thus far proved incapable of producing the full range of cell types that embryonic stem cells can.

Takahashi, K. & Yamanaka, S. Induction of pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast cultures by defined factors. Cell 126, 663–676 (2006).

Techniques that cause multipotent adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to differentiate into cells of the chondrogenic lineage have led to a variety of experimental strategies to investigate ...

Almost all adult tissues contain multipotent stem cells, which take care of renewing the tissue in different ways depending on the tissue. Stem cells in the early embryo The embryonic stem cells, that ...