Over the course of 40 days, the cells within the organoid self-organized into structures that resembled the early stages of brain and spinal cord development in a human embryo. This included the ...

Why Trust Us? Scientists have officially grown a notochord—the tissues that act as the “GPS for the developing embryo” by guiding the formation of the spine and nervous system. Previous ...

The cells on the inside layer of this very early embryo can make all of the cell ... in the pancreas), or enable people paralysed by spinal injuries to walk again by re-growing spinal nerves.

Acute spinal cord injury can be treated by transplanting human embryonic stem cell without any harm, according to a recent study by UC Irvine researchers. UCI neurobiologist Hans Keirstead and ...