Oxford Martin School

Projects

Adult stem cells
Recent research reveals an unexpected capacity for self-renewal in adult organs. If an adult patient could provide his or her own stem cells, this would avoid both the problem of immune rejection ... Read More »

Cancer Stem Cells
Current anti-cancer therapies are primarily based on trying to inhibit cancer cell growth, causing cancer cells to die, or a combination of both. Frequently, initial treatments may appear to be su... Read More »

Embryonic Stem Cells
The hype surrounding the promise of ES cells as replacements for damaged brain, heart or kidney cells ignores one fundamental problem: cells taken from an embryo unrelated to the patient carry the... Read More »

Haematopoetic Stem Cells
Researchers in this group are attempting to trace the signalling circuits that make a cell commit itself to one fate rather than another. Every cell has the same genes: the different identities t... Read More »