By tracking the fate of individual embryonic stem cells, researchers have found that endoderm cells—early embryonic cells ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Animal organs are enclosed by a specialized epithelial layer. Epithelial cells typically exhibit apicobasal polarity: their apical surfaces contact other cells or the environment, ...

Mice bred in a germ-free environment were compared to those bred in an environment colonized with germs, and the latter were ...

A research team at Kyoto University has discovered STAG3-cohesin, a new mitotic cohesin complex that helps establish the unique DNA architecture of spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs), the stem cells ...

Scientists of the study also pointed out that arguably more simple procedures such as freeze-drying sperm itself (rather than ...