Understanding the workings of stem cells is now seen as essential to the progress of regenerative medicine, tissue engineering and cancer therapeutics. Recently, there has been a growing awareness that the behaviors of stem cells emerge out of the highly complex interactions of dynamic (more…)

How are stem cells related to aging? Most of the cells within the human body have defined life spans. Most cells can only divide and thus replace themselves between 30 and 50 times. After a cell has undergone its 50 divisions, it can divide no further and enters the cellular aging (more…)

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are cancer cells (found within tumors or hematological cancers) that possess characteristics associated with normal stem cells, specifically the ability to give rise to all cell types found in a particular cancer sample. CSCs are therefore tumorigenic (tumor-forming), (more…)