A study has demonstrated how new skeletal muscle tissues can be grown from stem cells derived from the human placenta. The results give insights into the role of a protein that is crucial for ...

A mum whose friend's death from leukaemia prompted her to bank stem cells from her newborn's umbilical cord has described it ...

As one of the world’s first fetal surgeons, Diana Farmer has long been focused on the smallest of patients.She specializes in ...

You might recall that in our winter issue last year we covered how researchers used adult stem cells to better understand placental development. In one of the articles in this issue, we profile a ...

but not extra-embryonic tissues such as the placenta. Embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells are pluripotent stem cells. Endochondral ossification is hard to recapitulate with ...

and thus it also contains the embryonic stem cells; the trophoblast layer goes on to form part of the placenta. The righthand image shows the blastocyst "hatching" (D) from the protective zona ...

“They almost seem like a super-charged population of stem cells, in that they can target the site of an injury and travel directly to the injury through the circulatory system and are able to avoid ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

As division continues, some cells divide into the growing mass, distinguishing cells that form the embryo (epiblast) from those that form the placenta (trophectoderm ... up to seven days post ...

Farmer and Wang’s team manufactures clinical grade stem cells – mesenchymal stem cells – from placental tissue in the UC Davis Health’s CIRM-funded Institute for Regenerative Cures.

The possibility of gaining access to life-changing stem cell therapy could finally be in reach for many in the region, thanks ...

Tissue stem cells are derived from human tissues. Blood stem cells, which are used a lot in stem cell treatments, are derived form a donor’s bone marrow, circulation or placental blood. Scientists ...