Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent, depending on the number of cell types to which they can give rise. Chromosomal instability plays a crucial part in tumor ...
While most animal cells are specialised and have fixed roles, such as skin cells, nerve cells or blood cells, pluripotent stem cells are capable of both self-renewal and differentiation into ...
Many living organisms are able to regenerate damaged or lost tissue, but why some are particularly good at this and others are not is not fully understood. Molecular biologists have now made an ...