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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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
Human blastocyst at 6 days old

Creating 'embryos' in a dish: what does it mean for the future of science?

Ethics and Society Organoids
GSCN logo

GSCN 2019 - Short Film Series

Explore Stem Cells Reprogramming
Dish Life screengrab

Dish Life: a Cambridge Shorts film

Explore Stem Cells Reprogramming
Issues and ethics of human embryos generated from reprogramed cells

Issues and ethics of human embryos generated from reprogrammed cells

Reprogramming Ethics and Society
• EuroStemCell resource
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
• EuroStemCell resource
Adult MSN

Direct reprogramming: another way of making human neurons

iPS cells Research Huntington's Disease Neurological Disorders
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
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