Stem cell potential: Can anything make anything?

The Standard Metre: Has It Anything to Do With The Contingent A Priori

medical community now face a difficult decision: to prevent the production of blastocysts by nuclear trans- plantation, or to pursue paths of medical research and therapies that, in my view, will affect hundreds of thousands of lives

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Transdifferentiation--fact or artifact.

Normal development appears to involve a progressive restriction in developmental potential. However, recent evidence suggests that this progressive restriction is not irreversible and can be altered to reveal novel phenotypic potentials of stem, progenitor, and even differentiated cells. While some of these results can be explained by the presence of contaminating cell populations, persistence ...

Inm-7: Cord Blood Banking Potential and Prospective

The term “cord blood” is used for blood that is drawn from the umbilical cord and the placenta after a baby is born. Up until recently this afterbirth was discarded as medical waste. Cord blood contains stem cells that may be frozen for later use in medical therapies, such as stem cell transplantation or regenerative medicine. The umbilical cord and placenta are rich sources of stem cells. Thes...

Potential use of Dental Pulp Stem Cell in Laboratory Studies and Clinical Trials

Stem cell-based therapy has great potential in treating health conditions including cardiovascular, autoimmune, type I diabetes, neurodegenerative and bone and cartilage diseases also in spinal cord injuries, malformations and cancer. In addition to their potential use to treat systemic diseases, stem cell-based therapy also provides a powerful tool to treat oral and dental diseases such as cra...