Very small embryonic-like stem cells aka VSELs are reported to be tiny adult stem cells that are pluripotent…..or….. non-existent depending on whom you talk to most recently or which paper you just read. These very controversial cells (which I once compared to the Sasquatch) have a wildly fluctuating history with their existence on multiple occasions apparently being proven and then later disproven. The latter fate of them being not existing was most recently shown rather convincingly by Irv Weissman’s lab and the former fate of …Read More
Knoepfler lab stem cell blog
