Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent, depending on the number of cell types to which they can give rise. We show that multipotent neural stem cells (NSCs ...

Stem cell plasticity A fertilized egg cell is totipotent and can produce both ... During embryonic development, the pluripotent stem cells of the early embryo produce more specialized, multipotent ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of neural stem cell (pNSC) that exists outside the brain and spinal cord ...

From totipotent stem cells at conception, to pluripotent, multipotent, oligopotent, and unipotent stem cells by adulthood – every disease essentially boils down to a dysfunction in the cells and ...

Recent new technologies enabling the genetic modification of human embryonic stem cells and the derivation of patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells provide attractive opportunities for ...

Researchers from Nanjing Medical University have developed a novel method to generate transient totipotent blastomere-like stem cells (tTBLCs) by treating mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) with a ...