How to detect and preserve human stem cells in the lab

(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) Human stem cells that are capable of becoming any other kind of cell in the body have previously only been acquired and cultivated with difficulty. Scientists at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association have now presented details of a method to detect such pluripotent cells in a cell culture and preserve them in the laboratory.