Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine

Embryonic Stem Cells

Embryonic stem cells area unit derived from embryos at a biological process stage before the time that implantation would ordinarily occur within the womb. Fertilization commonly happens within the embryo, and through consecutive few days, a series of cleavage divisions occur because the embryo travels down the serum and into the female internal reproductive organ. every of the cells (blast meres) of those cleavage-stage embryos area unit dedifferentiated, i.e. they are doing not look or act just like the specialised cells of the adult, and therefore the blast meres don't seem to be nevertheless committed to turning into any specific form of differentiated cell. Indeed every those blast meres have the potential to relinquish rise to any cell of the body. the primary differentiation event in humans happens at about 5 days of development, once AN outer layer of cells committed to turning into a part of the placenta (the trophectoderm) separates from the inner cell mass (ICM)...