The great stem cell sort

Mesenchymal Stem Cell Purification from the Articular Cartilage Cell Culture

Objective Articular cartilage as an avascular skeletal tissue possesses limited capacity to heal. On the other hand, it is believed that the regeneration capacity of each tissue is largely related to its stem cell contents. Little is known about the presence of mesenchymal stem cells in articular cartilage tissue. This subject is investigated in the present study. Materials and Methods Artic...

Stem Cell Therapy: the ethical issues

The ability to culture human stem cells long term, and possibly indefinitely, and to control how such cells specialise to form the different tissues of the body offers the possibility of major advances in healthcare. Stem cells have been isolated and cultured, but a great deal of research is required to develop cell lines which can generate replacement cells and tissues to treat many diseases.S...

Great teachers for STEM.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 325 28 AUGUST 2009 1037 COVER Pseudocolored scanning electron micrograph (magnification ~34,000x) of the surface of mouse airway epithelia showing cilia protruding from epithelial cells; short protrusions in the foreground are microvilli from a nonciliated cell. In human airway epithelia, these motile cilia bear receptors that detect bitter compounds and signal th...

Hybrid Parallel Sort on the Cell Processor

Sorting large data sets has always been an important application, and hence has been one of the benchmark applications on new parallel architectures. We present a parallel sorting algorithm for the Cell processor that combines elements of bitonic sort and merge sort, and reduces the bandwidth to main memory by pipelining. We present runtime results of a partial prototype implementation and simu...

I-30: The Mesenchymal Stem Cell - The Origin of Endometriosis