There’s use for pluripotent stem cells in disease diagnosis and treatment. Ultimately, Jing says, the hope is to both expand the giant panda population and make it healthier. The team’s ...

The work started back in 2019, with the goal of creating iPSCs that could be used as precursors to male and female reproductive cells, helping to ensure the continued propagation of giant pandas.

The true mark of a pluripotent stem cell is its ability to divide and form the three germ layers— endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm—which are crucial for the development of the body’s tissue and organs ...

Now, a multi-institution team may well have found one – they’ve successfully taken regular giant panda skin cells, and transformed them into stem cells. Specifically, they’ve been able to ...

For the first time, Chinese scientists have cultivated stem cells of giant pandas which is expected to offer materials for panda characteristics research as well as treatment for diseases without ...