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 ...

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

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...

How cardiac cell fates are specified during heart development remains elusive. This study identifies a level-dependent role for transcription factor HAND1 in mesoderm patterning and the specification ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...