Gauging stem cells for regenerative medicine
Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 21:31
in Biology & Nature
A new benchmark for generating the most primitive type of stem cell has been described by scientists in a new report. While stem cells--cells that have the potential to differentiate into other types of cells--exist in adult humans, the most useful stem cells are those found in embryos, which are pluripotent, capable of becoming nearly any cell in the body.