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The term Regenerative medicine pertains to a medical field focusing on treatments utilizing adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells. These are used to stimulate the process of differentiation into a particular cell variant deemed necessary for cell and tissue repair. The term regenerative medicine was first used in the human genome projected when scientists isolated human embryonic stem cells along …
Teratoma is a benign tumor composed of multiple layers emerging from pluripotent cells that have been injected in mice that are found to possess an impaired immune system. Types of Teratomas in The Human Body There have been clinical trials carried out to establish a human embryonic stem cell line through the injection of putative stem cells After which, the …
Epigenetics relates to the process wherein regulatory proteins have the ability to switch genes on and off in such a way that it may be passed on at some point in the process of cellular division.
The immortal DNA strand is a theory that suggests the asymmetric division of the DNA of adult stem cells through selective retention as opposed to random segregation during mitosis. The process also has the potential to retain a different outline of parental DNA strands per division. The Immortal Strand theory was first proposed by researcher John Cairns in 1975. To …
Totipotent stem cells are very unique among all other variants of stem cells, because totipotent stem cells possess the highest possible ability to construct an entire organism out of scratch. Totipotency vs Multipotent vs Omnipotent Video They have the flexibility to transform into any type of special cells, even the likelihood of forming a new kind of organism.
Differentiation of Adipocytes Cell Differentiation is the process by which the genes of a particular cell changes upon interaction with external factors (chemical and physical), and transforming into another specialized form of cell, i.e., bone, heart, or liver. There are several techniques that have been formulated to stimulate cell differentiation for therapeutic reasons. One way is through directed differentiation, a …
