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Cells, Sources of
THE TURN OF the 21st century brought about dazzling advances in biomédical research. The progress made in the field of medicine, and particularly the discovery of stem cells, opened new avenues for treating conditions that would have been incurable otherwise. Though much experimental work has been done on stem cells, the clinical translation is still in initial phases.
Stem cells were identified in the early 1980s from a mouse blastocyst; it took scientists almost two decades before successfully isolating them from human blastocysts. The striking features of stem cells are their qualities of self—renewal and pluripotency, which enable them to develop into various kinds of adult tissue if a suitable environment for nurturing is provided.
By regenerating damaged tissue using stem cells, scientists are trying to find ...
- Biology
- Biotechnology, History of
- Cell Sorting
- Cells, Adult
- Cells, Amniotic
- Cells, Developing
- Cells, Embryonic
- Cells, Fetal
- Cells, Human
- Cells, Monkey
- Cells, Mouse (Embryonic)
- Cells, Neural
- Cells, Sources of
- Cells, Umbilical
- Cytogenetic Instability of Stem Cells
- Developmental Biology
- Differentiation, In Vitro and In Vivo
- Division Types (Symmetrical and Asymmetrical)
- Experimental Models
- Feeder/Feeder—Free Culture
- Gut Stem Cells
- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
- Lineages
- Mammary Stem Cells
- Markers of Sternness
- Methods of Growing Cells
- Microenvironment and Immune Issues
- Neuralstem
- Neurosphere Cultures
- Niche Self—Renewal
- Nuclear Reprogramming
- Parthogenesis
- Plant Stem Cells
- Prostate Tissue Stem Cells
- Renal Stem Cells
- Self—Renewal, Stem Cell
- Stem Cell Applications, Articular Cartilage
- Stem Cell Applications, Tendon and Ligament
- Stem—Like Cells, Human Brain
- Tissue Culture
- Transdifferentiation
- Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials Outside U.S.: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Clinical Trials Outside U.S.: Avascular Necrosis
- Clinical Trials Outside U.S.: Severe Coronary Artery Disease
- Clinical Trials Outside U.S.: Spinal Cord Injury
- Clinical Trials Within U.S.: Batten Disease
- Clinical Trials Within U.S.: Blind Process
- Clinical Trials Within U.S.: Cancer
- Clinical Trials Within U.S.: Heart Disease
- Clinical Trials Within U.S.: Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Clinical Trials Within U.S.: Skin Transplants (Burns)
- Clinical Trials Within U.S.: Spinal Cord Injury
- Clinical Trials Within U.S.: Traumatic Brain Injury
- Clinical Trials Worldwide
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- Diseases
- Ethics
- History and Technology
- Birth Dating of Cells by Retrovirus
- Bone Marrow Transplants
- BrdU/Thymidine
- Fluorescence—Activated Cell Sorting
- Human Embryonic Stem Cells
- In Vitro Fertilization
- Mouse ES Cell Isolation
- MRI Tracking
- Non—Human Primate Embryonic Stem Cells
- Nuclear Transfer, Altered
- Nuclear Transfer, Somatic
- Parthogenesis
- Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
- Viral Vectors: Adeno—Associated Virus
- Viral Vectors: Adenovirus
- Viral Vectors: Lentivirus
- Industry
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- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Bonn University
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- Caltech
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- Weill—Cornell Medical College
- Whitehead Institute
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- Legal Issues
- Organizations
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Australian Stem Cell Centre
- California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
- Canadian Stem Cell Network
- China Stem Cell News
- Christopher Reeve Foundation
- Community of Stem Cell Scientists
- Danish Stem Cell Research Center
- East of England Stem Cell Network
- European Consortium for Stem Cell Research—EuroStemCell
- International Society for Stem Cell Research
- International Stem Cell Forum
- Japan Human Cell Society
- Lasker Foundation
- Medical Research Council UK Stem Cell Initiative
- Michael J. Fox Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- National Stem Cell Bank
- Parkinson's Disease Foundation
- Scottish Stem Cell Network
- Stem Cell Genome Anatomy Projects
- Swiss Stem Cell Network
- UK National Stem Cell Network
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- People
- Alvarez—Buylla, Arturo
- Anversa, Piero
- Charo, Robin Alta
- Eaves, Connie
- Eggan, Kevin
- Fuchs, Elaine
- Gage, Fred
- Gearhart, John
- Goldman, Steven A.
- Jaenisch, Rudolf
- Keller, Gordon
- Kriegstein, Arnold
- Lanza, Robert
- Losordo, Douglas
- Macklis, Jeffrey
- McKay, Ronald D. G.
- Melton, Doug
- Morrison, Sean
- Mummery, Christine
- Nottebohm, Fernando
- Okano, Hideyuki
- Orkin, Stuart
- Rao, Mahendra
- Smith, Austin
- Snyder, Evan
- Steindler, Dennis A.
- Studer, Lorenz P.
- Thomson, James
- Van der Kooy, Derek
- Verfaillie, Catherine
- Vescovi, Angelo
- Weissman, Irving
- Wilmut, Ian
- Politics
- Advocacy
- Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research
- Congress: Votes and Amendments (Cloning/Embryos)
- Dickey Amendment
- Do No Harm: The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics
- National Right to Life Committee
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- Reagan, Nancy
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- Stem Cells, Bush Ruling
- Religion
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