For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of neural stem cell (pNSC) that exists outside the brain and spinal cord ...

Peripheral neural stem cells have the same cell morphology, self-renewal and differentiation capacity as neural stem cells of the brain. They express several specific markers and have genome-wide ...

Wenzhou Medical University and collaborating institutions have identified a population of human neural retinal stem ... these cells showed molecular features consistent with self-renewal and ...

Stem cells are extraordinary cells capable of self-renewal, differentiation ... achieving differentiation and proliferation in recipient individuals. Related Stories ・World’s largest coral ...

More information: Jihyeon Myeong et al, Microbial metabolites control self-renewal and precancerous progression of human cervical stem cells, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038 ...

Corpus epithelial stem cells located in the gastric isthmus serve as a source of tissue self-renewal. We recently identified the ... Genetic deletion of Wnt5a impaired proliferation in the gastric ...

Intestinal epithelial cells are differentiated from intestinal stem cells (ISCs); thus, promoting the proliferation and differentiation ... to explore the mechanism of maintaining the normal renewal ...

These daughter cells either become new stem cells (self-renewal) or specialized cells (differentiation) with a more specific function, such as blood, brain, heart muscle, or bone cells. This unique ...

Stem cells, with advanced self-renewal capacity and multidirectional differentiation potential, have been extensively utilized in regenerative medicine and tissue repair recently. Exosomes are small ...