Stem cells are cells with the ability to divide for indefinite periods and to give rise to specialized cells.  Stem cell therapy has now been emerged as an extraordinary promise to treat a wide range of diseases and conditions.  However, except blood stem cell transfer by bone marrow transplant which has been used as an standard practice for more than 50 years, nearly all of therapeutic potenti...

neurological development is largely a result of the learning that takes place starting at birth and during the earliest years of life. child care and preschool education programs are key to predicting ultimate success in school and life. children who attend preschool or other early education programs have enhanced cognitive, verbal, and social development (which is maintained into the first few...

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) has been traditionally employed in life sciences for total element content and speciation studies. Nonetheless, using element-tagged antibodies, ICP-MS also serves as a detector immunoassays thus allowing the determination of organic molecules (i.e. proteins, biomarkers, toxins, etc.) cells. When compared to conventional immunoassay detectio...