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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Reconstructing Parkinson's

Reconstructing the brain: approaches to treating Parkinson’s disease

iPS cells Stem Cell News Neurological Disorders Parkinson's Disease
Huntingtons

Treating Huntington’s disease: making new neurons is not enough

iPS cells Stem Cell News Huntington's Disease
Huntingtons and Stem Cells

Studying Huntington’s disease using stem cells in the lab

Stem Cell News Research Huntington's Disease
Fibroblasts transformed into induced thymic epithelial cells (iTEC) in vitro; iTEC are shown in green.

Fully functional immune organ grown in mice from lab-created cells

Research Reprogramming

Interview with Henrik Semb: the pancreas, beta cells and diabetes

Stem Cell News Research Diabetes
producing beta cells from stem cells

Making insulin producing beta cells from stem cells – how close are we?

Stem Cell News Reprogramming Diabetes
CRISPR

CRISPR - Changing the gene editing landscape

Ethics and Society Explore Stem Cells
Hope Beyond Hype - Scottish Titlepage

Scottish Stem Cell Stories

Blood Stem Cells Clinical Trials
• EuroStemCell resource
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
• EuroStemCell resource
Stroke: how could stem cells help?

Stroke: how could stem cells help?

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Stroke
• EuroStemCell resource
GMP facility

Regenerative medicine and regulation: what’s GMP got to do with it?

Industry Policy & Regulation
Blastocyst

The ethics of changing genes in the embryo

Embryonic Stem Cells Ethics and Society
Word cloud about genome editing

Genome editing and stem cells: Questions and Answers

Ethics and Society Research
Human neural stem cells

Motor neurone disease: how could stem cells help?

Current and Potential Uses Factsheets Motor Neurone Disease
• EuroStemCell resource
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
• EuroStemCell resource
Human mesenchymal stem cells

MSCs: the 'other' bone marrow stem cells

Cell and Gene Fundamentals Factsheets
• EuroStemCell resource
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
Holocar image

Europe approves Holoclar®, the first stem cell-based medicinal product

Clinical Trials Stem Cell News Eye Disease