Essential Current Concepts in Stem Cell Biology

Beate Brand-Saberi is a Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Head of the Department of Anatomy and Molecular Embryology at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany. She has been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Lanzhou, China and at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.Prof. Brand-Saberi initiated the international, interdisciplinary masters program on stem cell research at the Ruhr University, Bochum on which this textbook is based.

• Hematopoietic Stem Cells.- Mesenchymal Stem Cells.- Cord Blood Stem Cells.- Neural Stem Cells and Their Niche.- Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells.- Heart Muscle Tissue Engineering.- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.- Epigenetics of Somatic Cell Reprogramming.- Human Pluripotent Stem Cells and Neural Regeneration.- Dopaminergic Neuron-Related Stem Cells.- Liver Disease Modelling.- Organoids in Developmental Biology Research and Application.- Extracellular Vesicles.- Ethics in Stem Cell Applications.

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