Inhaltsangabe1. Plant Stem Cells: Divide et Impera, Jan U. Lohmann;

2. Stem Cell System of Sponge, Noriko Funayama;

3. Stem Cells in Immortal Hydra, Thomas C.G. Bosch;

4. Stem cells in planarian, Kiokazu Agata;

5. The Stem Cell System of the Basal Flatworm Macrostomum lignano, Peter Ladurner, Berngard Egger, Katrien De Mulder, Daniela Pfister, Georg Kuales, Will Salvenmoser, and Lukas Schärer;

6. Regeneration and Stem Cells in Ascidians, Stefano Tiozzo, Federico D. Brown, and Anthony William De Tomaso;

7. In vitro Control of Organogenesis by ActivinA Treatment of Amphibian and Mouse Stem Cells, Makoto Asashima, Akira Kurisaki, and Tatsuo Michiue;

8. Melanocyte stem cells: an excellent model to study stem cell biology, Masatake Osawa, Kiyotaka Hasegawa, Mariko Moriyama, and Shin-Ichi-Nishikawa;

9. In vitro hESC Technology: State of the Art and Future Perspectives, William Lathrop Rust;

10. Tumor Stem Cells: How to Define Them and How to Find Them? Ibrahim Alkatout and Holger Kalthoff;

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