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Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine is one of the products of this ongoing discussion. The recent successful culturing of early-stage human embryos to create stem-cell lines with ...

Replacing diseased or injured cells is a primary ambition of regenerative medicine. New advances in the development of pluripotent stem cells could benefit the treatment of three diseases in ...

Chinese scientists have used embryonic stem cell engineering to create the first mice with two fathers to reach adulthood, ...

Scientists have discovered that neural stem cells (NSCs) receive constant feedback from their daughter cells, influencing whether they remain dormant or activate to form new neurons and glia.