Monday, 24 August 2009

what do retinal stem cells look like - good question...

3rd pic down on this page http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/neuro/npmdepts/cmn/cmnresearch/cmnplasticity/

And here http://neuromics.blogspot.com/2009/08/stemez-np1-neural-progenitors-now.html

Basically round, amorphous. They are not usually shown - they way you demonstrate that something is a stem cell is to make it generate lots of offspring, in a dish or transplanted into a retina. Stem cells are not visually distinctive, so there are more pictures of the distinct offspring.

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