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UCSF scientists have discovered a new type of stem cell that helps young brains grow but is also capable of forming the cells found in tumors. The breakthrough could explain how adult brain cells take ...

Mesenchymal stem cells are adult stem cells found in several places ... people with MS. Neural stem cells are derived from other types of stem cells and can form cells in the central nervous ...

Scientist Sarallah Rezazadeh from the Icahn School of Medicine explores the molecular mechanisms behind adult stem cells as ...

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 ...

First Mouse With Two Male Parents to Reach Adulthood Jan. 28, 2025 — A team of stem cell scientists ... 2025 — While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. Adult stem cells have captured researchers’ interest since their discovery in the 1960s. Due to their unique capacity to self-renew and differentiate into multiple ...

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs ... tissue of adult subjects. The advantage is that pluripotent stem cells have the potential to produce almost any type of cell or tissue that ...

Image by Li Wang and Songcang Chen/Kriegstein Laboratory UCSF scientists have discovered a new type of stem cell that helps young brains grow but is also capable of forming the cells found in tumors.

THOUGH THEY'RE CURRENTLY only approved to treat a small group of diseases, researchers are exploring a whole world of possibilities when it comes to stem cells. “It’s an exciting field ...