Self-renewal, on the other hand, refers to the ability of the stem cell to regenerate itself. All of us walk around with stem cells that repopulate our blood and our muscle tissue and our skin tissue.

These images use color markers—blue for nuclei, red for cell membranes, and green for fluid—to show that spaces between cells shrink as fluid moves out during tissue compression, from left to right ...

Dissociating tissues into single cells is a core laboratory technique and vital for widely used applications such as next-generation sequencing or flow cytometry. Scientists who employ tissue ...

There are two major properties of a stem cell: potency and self-renewal. By potency, we mean a cell’s ability to give rise to specialized cells. Some stem cells are more potent than others, but at the ...