The advance of perinatal medicine has improved the survival of extremely premature
babies, thereby creating a new and heterogeneous patient group with limited information on …

The chicken represents a valuable model for research in the area of immunology, infectious
diseases as well as developmental biology. Although it was the first livestock species to …

The epicardium has emerged as a multipotent cardiovascular progenitor source with
therapeutic potential for coronary smooth muscle cell, cardiac fibroblast (CF) and …

The neural crest (NC) is a transient multipotent cell population present during embryonic
development. The NC can give rise to multiple cell types and is involved in a number of …

The genome contributes to the uniqueness of an individual breed, and enables distinctive
characteristics to be passed from one generation to the next. The allelic heterogeneity of a …

Scientific research and progress, particularly in the drug discovery and regenerative
medicine fields, is typically dependent on suitable animal models to develop new and …

Multiple myeloma (MM) remains incurable despite the abundance of novel drugs. As it has
been previously shown, preclinical 2D models fail to predict disease progression due to their …

Male germline stem cells (mGSCs), in charge for the fertility in male testis, are the only kind
of adult stem cells that transmit genetic information to next generation, with promising …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based tracking is increasingly attracting attention as a
means of better understanding stem cell dynamics in vivo. Intracellular labeling with …

Millions of people suffer from end-stage refractory diseases. The ideal treatment option for
terminally ill patients is organ transplantation. However, donor organs are in absolute …