Explore Stem Cells

Want to know more about stem cells and their uses? In this section, we provide an introduction to stem cells and their uses, research, factsheets, policy, news and other stem cell themes.

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A diabetic injects himself using an insulin pen

Diabetes: how could stem cells help?

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Diabetes
• EuroStemCell resource
Umbilical cord

Cord blood stem cells: current uses and future challenges

Blood Stem Cells Cell and Gene Fundamentals Cord Blood
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Embryonic stem cell research: an ethical dilemma

Embryonic stem cell research: an ethical dilemma

Embryonic Stem Cells Ethics and Society
• EuroStemCell resource
Regeneration: what does it mean and how does it work?

Regeneration: what does it mean and how does it work?

Cell and Gene Fundamentals Explore Stem Cells
• EuroStemCell resource
Ethics and reprogramming: ethical questions after the discovery of iPS cells

Ethics and reprogramming: ethical questions after the discovery of iPS cells

Factsheets iPS cells
• EuroStemCell resource
EuroGCT logo

EuroGCT: Information on Gene and Cell Therapy

Blood Stem Cells CAR-T Therapy
Intestinal stem cells

Short Bowel Syndrome: how can stem cells help?

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Bowel Disease Rare Diseases
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The image shows the location of the thymus in the human body. The thymus is located within the chest cavity, behind the breastbone and between the lungs.

Regenerating The Thymus

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Cancer Immune Conditions
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Eye

The eye and stem cells: the path to treating blindness

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Eye Disease
• EuroStemCell resource
Horse

Stem cells and equine health

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets
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Stroke: how could stem cells help?

Stroke: how could stem cells help?

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Stroke
• EuroStemCell resource
Human neural stem cells

Motor neurone disease: how could stem cells help?

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Motor Neurone Disease
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New tools for disease research: reprogrammed cells in disease modelling

New tools for disease research: reprogrammed cells in disease modelling

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets
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Human mesenchymal stem cells

MSCs: the 'other' bone marrow stem cells

Cell and Gene Fundamentals Factsheets
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Lung stem cells in health, repair and disease

Lung stem cells in health, repair and disease

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Lung Disease
• EuroStemCell resource
Reprogrammed skin cells

Cell identity and reprogramming

Cell and Gene Fundamentals Disease Modelling
• EuroStemCell resource
Human iPS cell colonies

iPS cells and reprogramming: turn any cell of the body into a stem cell

Cell and Gene Fundamentals Factsheets
• EuroStemCell resource
Neurons grown from embryonic stem cells

Huntington’s disease: how could stem cells help?

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Huntington's Disease Neurological Disorders
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Muscle diagram

Muscular dystrophy: how could stem cells help?

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Muscle and Skeletal Diseases Muscular Dystrophy
• EuroStemCell resource
Blood cells

Blood stem cells: the pioneers of stem cell research

Blood Stem Cells Cell and Gene Fundamentals
• EuroStemCell resource