Promotes the field of cell therapy and facilitates the exchange of information and resources. Provides news and information on conferences, courses and jobs.
Researchers at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil have found that mesenchymal stem cells reside in virtually all post-natal organs and tissues.
Educational materials and research resource for application to tissue repair. Based at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark.
Official resource about research, using human embryonic lines under Federal policy, eligibility criteria, funding opportunities for scientists. Includes FAQ maintained by the National Institutes of Health, Maryland.
Hundreds of peer-reviewed, scientifically credible resources providing stem cell information and education for students, teachers and the general public.
Introduction to report by Yu and Thomson on developing eight undifferentiated pluripotent stem cell lines, using OCT4, SOX2, NANOG, and LIN28 to reprogram adult somatic fibroblasts. Includes links to related media coverage. (November 20, 2007)
Introduction to article updating work on patient specific cloning of stem cells for applications in diabetes, in Seoul National University, South Korea. [article retracted from Science Magazine] (May 19, 2005)
Report on research involving introduction of DNA from embryonic stem cells, surviving in egg genome from 11 women, for three to five days, the country's first patient specific cells. Publication due in Reproductive and BioMedicine Online from Newcastle University. (May 19, 2005)
Washington Post announcement of successful isolation of pluripotent human embryonic stem cells, independently at Wisconsin and Baltimore. (November 6, 1998)