The stem cell controversy concerns the ethics of research involving the development and use of human embryos. Most commonly, this controversy focuses...

multicellular organisms, stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can change into various types of cells and proliferate indefinitely...

Stem-cell therapy uses stem cells to treat or prevent a disease or condition. As of 2024[update], the only FDA-approved therapy using stem cells is hematopoietic...

Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are pluripotent stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, an early-stage pre-implantation embryo. Human...

A stem cell line is a group of stem cells that is cultured in vitro and can be propagated indefinitely. Stem cell lines are derived from either animal...

laws have been the source of much controversy and vary significantly by country. In the European Union, stem cell research using the human embryo is...

pluripotent stem cells (also known as iPS cells or iPSCs) are a type of pluripotent stem cell that can be generated directly from a somatic cell. The iPSC...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) also known as mesenchymal stromal cells or medicinal signaling cells, are multipotent stromal cells that can differentiate...

ability allows stem cells to create any cell type, which could then be transplanted to replace damaged or destroyed cells. Controversy surrounds human...

Stem-cell niche refers to a microenvironment, within the specific anatomic location where stem cells are found, which interacts with stem cells to regulate...

Adult stem cells are undifferentiated cells, found throughout the body after development, that multiply by cell division to replenish dying cells and regenerate...

adequate stem cell counts. The public in the United States has a general awareness of embryonic stem cells because of the stem cell controversy. However...

A progenitor cell is a biological cell that can differentiate into a specific cell type. Stem cells and progenitor cells have this ability in common....

Stem cell laws and policy in the United States have had a complicated legal and political history. Stem cells are cells found in all multi-cellular organisms...

men and women—can reverse our rapid slide toward Schechem. As the stem cell controversy brewed in the late 1990s and into 2001, President George W. Bush...

Hwang Woo-suk, who claimed to have created the first human embryonic stem cells by cloning in 2004. Hwang and his research team at the Seoul National...

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(STAP) was a proposed method of generating pluripotent stem cells by subjecting ordinary cells to certain types of stress, such as the application of...

Ovarian stem cells are oocytes formed in ovarian follicle before birth in female mammals. They do not form post-natally, and are depleted throughout reproductive...

Embryonic Stem Cell Research (2003) of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Health Commission of China: Research in human embryonic stem cells...

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Stem cell research policy varies significantly throughout the world. There are overlapping jurisdictions of international organizations, nations, and...

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(where each cell has partly human and partly animal genetic contents) and human-animal chimeras (where some cells are human and some cells are animal in...

proposal by the President's Council on Bioethics, as a solution to the stem cell controversy. According to one of the plans put forth, by deactivating the gene...

and Christian fundamentalists. Critics argue that nonsensical claims often stem from deliberate ignorance, and terms like "Putin sympathizer" or "conspiracy...

embryonic stem cell line in 1998 and for deriving human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) in 2007. Human embryonic stem cells [which are cells that reproduce...

it must be justifiable to destroy them to save lives. He argues that stem cell research is important enough as to be justifiable even if one conceptualizes...

themselves), postulate that future breakthroughs in tissue rejuvenation, stem cells, regenerative medicine, molecular repair, gene therapy, pharmaceuticals...