An illustration of zebrafish heart development, showing the migration of cells in the growing embryo after 17 hours, 1 day and 2 days to form the heart. Most heart cells come from the embryonic ...

While both species' blastula cells express the pou5 gene, a key stem cell regulator, the gene is not expressed in neural crest stem cells in lampreys. Losing this factor may have limited the ability ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have identified that neural crest stem cells, a group of cells located in the skin and other parts of the body, are the origin of reprogrammed neurons ...