Are embryonic stem cells and artificial stem cells equivalent?

Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have found new evidence suggesting some human induced pluripotent stem cells are the 'functional equivalent' of human ...

Blocking differentiation is enough to give cells 'stemness'

Though immune therapy and regenerative medicine are promising areas of research for future medical therapies, they are limited today by the difficulty of creating stem cells, and scientists around the world are searching ...

A snapshot of stem cell expression

Researchers on the Wellcome Genome Campus reveal new genes involved in stem cell pluripotency, new subpopulations of cells and new methods to find meaning in the data. Published in Cell Stem Cell, the findings have implications ...

Global Blood Therapeutics latest biotech to double in debut

Blood disorder drug developer Global Blood Therapeutics shares more than doubled Wednesday as the company became the latest biotechnology company to get a powerful response from investors in its stock market debut.

New procedure to obtain induced pluripotent stem cells

For their ability to differentiate into other cell types, the embryonic stem cells hold a large potential in the medical industry.  Their use, however, poses ethical questions due to the fact that in order to obtain them, ...

You're as old as your stem cells

A special issue of Cell Stem Cell published on June 4 includes a collection of reviews and perspectives on the biology of aging.

How frogs and fish can help us learn to freeze humans

From Star Wars to Futurama to Alien, the idea that humans can be frozen in time in order to be awoken later is a well-established sci-fi trope. While stopping biological time or inducing long-term hibernation is still as ...

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