Stem cells

Fluorescent tagging enables scientists to monitor neural stem cells that might help repair neurological damage

A scalable platform for growing heart muscle cells may lead to repair of damaged heart cells

Reprogramming of adult cells in animal-free conditions provides a safer culture system for therapeutic stem cells

The balance of renewal and differentiation of the skin’s stem cells is regulated by factors secreted by the cells themselves

Stem cells derived from different types of fat express different cell-surface markers

A novel targeted mass spectrometry technique uncovers an elusive sugar modification in stem cells

Mapping the replacement of dead cells in the intestine uncovers a critical stem cell pool

A*STAR’s Single-Cell Omics Centre, the first research center in Asia exclusively dedicated to accelerating the understanding of how individual cells work, officially opened in April 2013

A repressor protein that blocks differentiation-specific genes helps maintain stem cells’ ability to develop into any cell type

Inducing stem cells to become different cell types efficiently, and on a large scale, is now possible using a three-dimensional platform

A recently discovered stem cell population could one day provide useful source material for kidney repair

A three-dimensional fiber scaffold promotes large-scale stem cell proliferation and differentiation to levels suitable for tissue transplants