Stem cell-powered aesthetic treatments have gotten a bad rep in the past due to ethical concerns, but it turns out that plant-based stem cells are just as effective as human stem cells.

By this definition, stem cells are particularly important for plant growth, because virtually all tissues of the plant descend from small groups of stem cells located in their growing apices ...

Jan. 28, 2025 — A team of stem cell scientists have successfully used embryonic stem cell engineering to create a bi-paternal mouse -- a mouse with two male parents -- that lived until adulthood.

A patch made from lab-grown muscle cells boosted heart function in monkeys with cardiovascular disease and is now being ...

This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of oxygen and nutrients, killing the cardiomyocytes there. This leads to a ...

The big difference is that the stem cells in adult plants can still make every type of plant cell. Each one has the potential to form a whole new plant! Unsurprisingly, people want to make use of ...

Animal and plant stem-cell niches have conserved cellular organization. Both maintain stem cells by short-range signals that originate from organizing centres. The positioning of two different ...

Researchers writing in the journal ‘Nature’ say they have developed a ‘patch’ that can repair failing hearts. Results of the clinical trial, which took place in 2021, were published on Wednesday. A 46 ...

“Immortalized cells,” they explain, is not a scientific term but a shorthand to refer to “cells that can keep growing for longer than is normal for their cell type,” including most stem ...

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