Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are stem cells derived from the undifferentiated inner mass cells of a human embryo. Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, meaning they are able to grow (i.e. differentiate ...

Three years ago, George Kassiotis and his team made an unexpected discovery: A specific way of producing a protein called calbindin was found to help cancer cells survive by preventing them from aging ...

Chick satellite cells from breast and leg muscles show opposite patterns of proliferation and differentiation when cultured ...

Scientists from Skoltech, together with colleagues from the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the ...

Stem cells can self-renew and differentiate into a wide variety of cell types, making them critical components in embryonic development. In adults, stem cell populations, such as those in the ...

Humans have around 30 trillion cells in our adult bodies. Amazingly, each of these cells came from a handful of about 100 stem cells in the earliest days of development. The ability of these embryonic ...

Marta Shahbazi transformed the understanding of human embryo development with groundbreaking in vitro culture models.

A University of California, Riverside study reports that cells in the earliest stages of human development could be susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, offering new insight ...

Stem cell research offers unprecedented opportunities for developing new medical therapies for debilitating diseases and a new way to explore fundamental questions of biology. Stem cells are ...

Cultivated steak is notoriously difficult to produce. But a new study could make it easier, at least in theory. Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Barcelona have ...

Human neural stem cells that help form the brain and spinal cord are highly susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, including omicron ...

New findings raise concerns about the potential effects of maternal COVID-19 infection on early nervous system development.