In its most basic form, this is the idea of a stem cell. We can say that human cells arise from a process of “differentiation ...

Newman uses 100 percent plant-based stem cells in his practice and his skincare products. Ethics aside, Newman says that human stem cells aren’t always the most reliable anyway (they can ...

Wang's lab has been working with plant stem cells for years trying to understand how they control their stem cells, specifically the stem cells that give rise to vascular bundles -- the structures ...

For the first time, researchers from both Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University have grown human kidney organoids (a ...

The promise of stem cell therapy is powerful. Scientists can draw versatile cells from the human body and deliver them to repair injuries and fight disease from the inside out. But not all stem ...

We have known what plant cells look like without their walls, and we know what they look like when the walls are fully assembled, but we’ve never seen the wall-building process in action.

These fine structures, around 1.5 µm in diameter (or 20 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair), are protrusions extending from the cell body, and are rich in actin or protein filaments.