The findings of Taylor et al. 1 indicate that epidermis can be produced by hair follicles in undamaged newborn skin, and that stem cell progeny move horizontally from the follicle, a process that ...

1 Scientists are exploring substitutes for transplantation, including the use of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) as alternative therapeutics. hPSCs are precursor cells that have the ability to ...

Proper spindle alignment is key for the correct implementation of the unequal fate of the stem-cell daughters. In both neuroblasts and mGSCs, the two centrosomes are unequal. One is a ...

Advocates counter that adult stem cells, useful as they may be for some diseases, have thus far proved incapable of producing the full range of cell types that embryonic stem cells can.