Cells which have not fully differentiated yet, i.e. with the potential to develop into other kinds of cells through asymmetric cell division.
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Transplantation of stem cells
During the autologous transplantation of stems cells from bone marrow to produce new blood cells why all the other stem cells other than the one obtained are destroyed?
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Is it possible to print humans?
According to this news, scientists can use stem cells to print objects. So say theoretically, is there any possibility to print human beings?
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Role of Fbx15 in ES cells and its use in assaying for iPS cells (Yamanaka paper and others)?
I am trying to understand the assay for iPS cells in the Takahashi & Yamanaka 2006 paper.
They inserted a beta-geo cassette, which contains the neomycin resistance gene, into the Fbx15 gene. The ...
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How might IVF (and related technologies) alter epigenetic marks?
I was reading up on KCNQ1, which encodes a voltage-gated potassium channel, and I discovered that it happens to be only maternally expressed. This is regulated by KCNQ1OT1, a non-coding RNA, which is ...
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How are different types of cells created from zygote?
In the process of mitosis that starts from zygote, how do different cells appear? What happens that some cells become one type and some another?
For example, is there a cell that divides into a ...
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Does every gland type have stem cells for regeneration?
Is there any gland in which there are no stem cells?
I know that:
sebaceous gland is maintained by unipotent stem cells
thyroid gland - some stem cells, apparently unipotent
Glands about which ...
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What metabolically happens when an egg fuses with the nucleus of a somatic cell
In stem cell biology, it is recognized that embryonic stem cells are transcriptionally inactive for the first 3 days of development. However, during somatic cell nuclear transfer, the nucleus is ...
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How similar are Circulating Tumor Cells and Cancer Stem Cells?
Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) are linked with metastasis and their presence can be used to indicate the onset of metastatic cancer. Likewise, the Cancer Stem Cell (CSC) hypothesis suggests that ...
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Possible? When a pregnant woman suffers an organ damage, fetus would send stem cells to the damage organ to help repair it?
I am quite sure that there is this blood-placental barrier between the mother and the baby so that nothing (except a type of antibody) can pass through it.
But I remember reading somewhere that when ...
