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Human stem cells are being used to create miniature 3D tissues which can be used to study normal human biology and disease in vitro. As Toshiro Sato places a culture dish under a microscope he does not see a sheet of cells, rather a complex sphere of delicate tissue barely visible to the naked eye, …
Once upon a stem cell within a human body, one little stem cell became a heart cell, another little stem cell went on to make bone, one little stem cell had mutant genes, while that little stem cell had none. Stem cell research began about a decade ago showing seemingly endless possibilities from replacing defective …
A protein called TAZ can convey different signals depending upon not only what variety of stem cell but also which part of the stem cell receives it, signal depends upon the interpretation of the receiver, as published in Stem Cell Reports. Some stem cells are naive blank slates, while other stem cells are primed …