Scientists identify embryonic stem cells by appearance alone
August 27, 2007
Scientist can now identify pluripotent stem cells based solely on their physical appearance.
August 27, 2007
Scientist can now identify pluripotent stem cells based solely on their physical appearance.
June 6, 2007
Researchers have manipulated mouse fibroblasts and turned them into cells with such developmental elasticity that they appear identical to embryonic stem cells.
December 1, 2006
The German Center honors Jaenisch for discovering non-genetic mechanisms in both cancer and stem cells.
October 12, 2006
Election is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health.
October 5, 2006
She will study how specific sets of genes are turned on or off in embryonic stem cells in order to permit cellular differentiation.
April 20, 2006
Researchers have determined how a key developmental ingredient controls the genome.
February 1, 2006
Findings might aid research into therapies for human sufferers.
January 17, 2006
Researchers analyzed the complete gene-expression profiles of both cloned and fertilization-derived stem cells in mice and concluded that the two are indistinguishable.
January 13, 2006
November 9, 2005
What we don't know about human embryonic stem cells could fill labs all around the world.
October 17, 2005
Scientists at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have successfully demonstrated that a theoretical-and controversial-technique for generating embryonic stem cells is indeed possible, at least in mice.
September 8, 2005
Researchers working with human embryonic stem cells have uncovered the process responsible for the single-most tantalizing characteristic of these cells: their ability to become just about any type of cell in the body, a trait known as pluripotency.