A woman who was diagnosed with rare blood cancer while pregnant with twins has launched an appeal to find a stem cell donor.

Identical twins, not-so-identical stem cells Date: April 19, 2017 Source: Salk Institute Summary: A new twin study sheds light on what causes reprogrammed stem cells to have different epigenetic ...

Identical twins form from the same egg and get the same genetic material from their parents — but that doesn't mean they're genetically identical by the time they're born. That's because so ...

Although these tumors can originate during embryonic development, they aren't embryos, and they are not a person's "twin." They arise from germ cells, which are the cells that go on to later ...

in the end each twin has slightly different DNA. (Zappys Technology Solutions) The original fertilized egg divides one or more times before the resulting clump of cells splits into two. Each clump of ...

Even iPSCs made from the cells of twins, they found, have important differences, suggesting that not all variation between iPSC lines is rooted in genetics, since the twins have identical genes.

Salk scientists and collaborators have shed light on a longstanding question about what leads to variation in stem cells by comparing induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from identical ...