stem cell: Quick Facts

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Doubling stem cell chromosomes produces heart cells with stronger, faster contractions • Oct. 25, 2026, 7:00 AM ET (Medical Xpress)

Scientists discover that male and female skin play by different rules • Oct. 18, 2026, 6:54 AM ET (Science Daily)

AI reveals a shared language guiding cell development • Oct. 16, 2026, 11:20 AM ET (Phys.org)

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Diagram showing the locations of neural stem cells in brain regions such as the hippocampus and ventricles, and hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow and blood, with labeled illustrations of the brain, spinal cord, circulatory system, and skeleton.

The differentiation of embryonic stem cells

Diagram illustrating the process of bone marrow transplantation, showing how stem cells are collected from a donor's blood or bone marrow, separated and selected, cryopreserved, thawed, diluted, and then infused into a patient who has undergone chemotherapy or radiation therapy.

This diagram illustrates the cloning process of Dolly the sheep in 1996, showing how a nucleus from an adult Finn Dorset ewe was fused with an enucleated egg cell from a Scottish Blackface ewe, then implanted into a surrogate to produce Dolly.

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Learn about medical tourism and clinical trials of stem cell treatment and the risk associated with it

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Rudolf Jaenisch

German biologist

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Fred H. Gage

American geneticist

Shinya Yamanaka.

Shinya Yamanaka

Japanese scientist

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Indian-born American physician, scientist, and writer

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James Thomson

American biologist