There are two major properties of a stem cell: potency and self-renewal. By potency, we mean a cell’s ability to give rise to specialized cells. Some stem cells are more potent than others, but at the ...

Scientists have identified one mechanism that explains how some stem cells choose to become a given cell type: the cells combine specific sets of proteins at precise positions along the DNA. When ...

When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

Scientists in Melbourne have discovered how tiny electrical pulses can steer stem cells as they grow, opening the door to new improved ways of creating new tissues, organs, nerves and bones. Dr. Amy ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...

When I picture stem cell therapy, I think of high-tech longevity clinics, IVs and tons of time and money — almost something ...

Self-renewal, on the other hand, refers to the ability of the stem cell to regenerate itself. All of us walk around with stem cells that repopulate our blood and our muscle tissue and our skin tissue.