Researchers from Nanjing Medical University have developed a novel method to generate transient totipotent blastomere-like stem cells (tTBLCs) by treating mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) with a ...

Stem cell plasticity A fertilized egg cell is totipotent and can produce both all the cells of the new individual as well as the tissues outside of the embryo, such as the placenta. The cells that ...

Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent, depending on the number of cell types to which they can give rise. We show that multipotent neural stem cells (NSCs ...

Stem cells are unspecialized cells that have the remarkable ability to develop into various types of cells in the body. They serve as a repair system, dividing essentially without limit to replenish ...

After a sperm fertilizes an egg, the totipotent cell divides into a zygote ... up to seven days post fertilization. While stem cell-based embryo models greatly extend the ability to study this period ...

From totipotent stem cells at conception, to pluripotent, multipotent, oligopotent, and unipotent stem cells by adulthood – every disease essentially boils down to a dysfunction in the cells and ...

The phase I clinical trials showed stem cell transplants for Parkinson’s disease appear to be safe and might restore dopamine-producing brain cells.

Stem cell research is still a new field within biology ... a two-cell sea urchin embryo are able to develop into a complete sea urchin, demonstrating the totipotency of these cells. Pluripotency of ...

As we age, blood stem cells, the essential source of new blood cells in the body, can accumulate genetic mutations.

The efficiency of nuclear transfer remains extremely low (<2%) and high rates of perinatal mortality are observed, particularly when adult somatic cells are used as donor karyoplasts. This ...

Cells with electrophysiological activity obtained at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) are opening up new ...