In healthy rodent brains, newborn neurons are constantly generated in the stem cell niche, known as the subventricular zone (SVZ). These cells might help to repair a brain that has been damaged by ...

Gray hair in mice signals successful elimination of cancer-prone stem cells. Study offers clues about melanoma risk in humans ...

Gray hair often feels like a simple sign of passing time. It is easy to see it as a cosmetic change and nothing more. Yet new ...

When it comes to cell types, stem cells have unlimited potential – literally. These self-renewing cells, which are capable of giving rise to any cell type in the body, reside in specialized ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have identified a key molecule for establishing blood stem cells in their niche within the bone marrow. The findings, reported in the January ...

The Drosophila germline stem cell (GSC) niche represents a finely balanced microenvironment where complex intercellular signals converge to regulate stem cell maintenance, differentiation and tissue ...

Researchers shed light on the neural stem and progenitor cell (NSPC) microenvironment during development. Neurosphere formation from embryonic mouse forebrain NSPCs was significantly increased under ...

In work published in Nature Biotechnology, Rubin and his research group turned to 3D cell culture to take on the problem of generating sufficient satellite cells for regenerative therapies. 2 ...