“Having access to the fetal tissue offers the possibility to model the fetal tissue while the baby is still in the womb,” said Mattia Gerli, a stem cell biologist at University ... these therapies ...

The host species provides the physiological environment and life support for embryonic, fetal, or adult chimaeric animals. In stem-cell research ... processes or proper tissue organization ...

Moreover, despite Holt’s repeated justification that fetal stem cells are harvested only in order to “meet the need” for “precursor cells,” there is a difference between a “need” and ...

Our results show how a full complement of MCM proteins is specifically required to preserve the functionality of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and the proper ... leading to fetal anemia; in ...

Image of pancreatic organoids ... but generating fetal organoids has been largely prevented by ethical and legal restrictions concerning the harvesting of human tissues. In a breakthrough study, stem ...

It is the world’s first spina bifida treatment combining fetal surgery with stem cells. “When we found out about it, we were super hopeful,” Lindsey said. “Jared made a phone call ...

Things get even more intriguing when fetal cells cross the placenta and enter the mother's bloodstream. Like stem cells, fetal cells are pluripotent, which means they can grow into many kinds of ...

scientists began transplanting fetal tissue into people with Parkinson's. But the efforts produced uneven results and sometimes troubling side effects like uncontrolled movement. Stem cells ...

Stromal cells – also known as mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) – are non-hematopoietic, multipotent, self-renewable cells that are capable of trilineage differentiation (mesoderm, ectoderm, and ...

US doctors say they have successfully carried out surgery on babies in the womb to repair harmful spine defects using a special, therapeutic stem cell patch method. Experts hope the pioneering ...