Educational Resources for Stem Cell Research & Developmental Biology

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Embryonic Development

Emouseatlas The EMA Anatomy Atlas of Mouse Development uses embryological mouse models to provide a digital atlas of mouse development. It is based on the definitive books of mouse embryonic development by Theiler (1989) and Kaufman (1992) yet extends these studies by creating a series of three dimensional computer models of mouse embryos at successive stages of development with defined anatomical domains linked by a stage-by-stage ontology of anatomical names.

UNSW Embryology UNSW Embryology educational site, termed the new Embryology Wiki, provides extensive data on mouse embryology. Pages on developmental topics can be added by experts in that specific research area and the content subject to easy review and update. Students can also contribute and several undergraduate courses use content on this site.

Caltech Atlas of Mouse Development The µMRI Atlas of Mouse Development is a3D digital atlas of normal mouse development constructed from magnetic resonance image (MRI) data.Specimens are prepared in aqueous, isotonic solutions so there is no tissue shrinkage. Limited specimen handling minimizes physical perturbation of the embryos. The results of this approach is perhaps some of the most accurate geometric representations of developing mouse anatomy available.

Embryogenesis and Organogenesis: Tutorials Online embryology chapters that describe different topics in early development and stages during organogenesis with relevant text and images developed by the universities of Freiburg, Lausanne and Bern with the support of the Swiss Virtual Campus.

Society for Developmental Biology The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) aims to study and promote developmental biology by covering development in all organisms and at all levels while allowing global communication between researchers.

StemBook StemBook is a comprehensive, open-access collection of original, peer-reviewed chapters covering topics related to Stem Cell Biology

Stem Cell Research

California Stem Cell Agency California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, stem cells agency. The agency funds stem cell research at institutions throughout California with the goal of developing new therapies for deadly diseases and disorders.

Harvard Stem Cell Institute Harvard Stem Cell Institute is a scientific collaborative established to fulfill the promise of stem cell biology, a community of scientists and clinical experts in stem cell science seeking to bring new treatments to the clinic, and new life to patients with a wide range of chronic illnesses.

Stem Cell Assays Stem Cell Assays is a collaborative project of stem cellresearchers and cell therapy experts aiming to promote the stem cell field.

National Institutes of Health The NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry provides guidelines to established policy and procedures under which NIH will fund research in the area of human stem cells.

Stem Cell Information, National Institutes of Health The NIH Stem Cell Information section provides basic information about stem cells.

ATCC ATCC is a private organization that provides standard reference microorganisms, cell lines and other materials for research in the life sciences

Public Health England The European Collection of Cell Cultures (ECACC) provides the research community with a rich collection of cell lines.

European Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry European Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry is a database of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) and induced pluripotent stem cells.

Coriell Institute for Medical Research The Coriell Institute provides information about stem cells and holds a considerable collection of tissue samples, cell lines and pluripotent stem cells.

Riken Bioresource Center Cell Bank The Riken Bioresource Center provides a bank of stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells.

Regenerative Medicine

MalaCards MalaCards is an integrated database of human maladies and their annotations, modeled on the architecture and richness of the popular GeneCards database of human genes. The MalaCards disease and disorders database is organized into ''disease cards'', each integrating prioritized information, and listing numerous known aliases for each disease, along with a variety of annotations, as well as inter-disease connections, empowered by the GeneCards relational database, searches, and GeneDecks set-analyses. Annotations include: symptoms, drugs, articles, genes, clinical trials, related diseases/disorders and more. An automatic computational information retrieval engine populates the disease cards, using remote data, as well as information gleaned using the GeneCards platform to compile the disease database. The MalaCards disease database integrates both specialized and general disease lists, including rare diseases, genetic diseases, complex disorders and more.

Stem Cell Therapy Stem Cell Therapy company presents a collection of stem cell-based therapy summaries for multiple diseases such as diabetes, liver disease, lung disease, osteoarthritis and more.

American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) advances knowledge, awareness and education, leading to discovery and clinical application of genetic and cellular therapies for human disease.

Europeian Society of Gene and Cell Therapy European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT) promotes basic and clinical research in gene therapy, cell therapy and genetic vaccines by facilitating education, exchange of information and technology.

EuroStemCell EuroStemCell is an educational resource that provides information about stem cell research and therapy, types of stem cells and their current uses.

Cell Therapy Catapult Cell Therapy Catapult provides information on development, delivery and commercialization of cell therapy in UK.

Alliance for Regenerative Medicine Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) promotes legislative, regulatory and reimbursement initiatives necessary to facilitate advance in regenerative medicine.

International Society for Cellular Therapy International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) is a global society thar offers a unique collaboration between academia, regulatory bodies and industry partners in cell therapy field.

Gene Expression

GeneCards GeneCards is a searchable, integrated database of human genes that provides comprehensive, updated, and user-friendly information on all known and predicted human genes. GeneCards extracts and integrates gene-related data, including genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, genetic, clinical, and functional information. This is automatically mined from >100 carefully selected web sources, thereby allowing one-stop access to a very broad information base. GeneCards overcomes barriers of data format and heterogeneity, and uses standard nomenclature and approved gene symbols. It presents a rich subset of data for each gene, and provides deep links to the original sources for further scrutiny. GeneCards is widely used, and assists in the understanding of gene-related aspects of biology and medicine.

MGI, Mouse Genome Informatics MGI is the international database resource for the laboratory mouse, providing integrated genetic, genomic, and biological data to facilitate the study of human health and disease.

Eurexpress A Transcriptome Atlas Database for Mouse Embryo.

GUDMAP, GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project The GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project (GUDMAP) is a consortium of laboratories working to provide the scientific and medical community with tools to facilitate research.

Human Protein Atlas The Human Protein Atlas portal is an open-access database with millions of high-resolution images showing the spatial distribution of proteins in 46 different postnatal normal human tissues, 20 different cancer types, and 47 different human cell lines.

Gensat, Gene Expression Nervous System Atlas The GENSAT project maps the expression of genes in the central nervous system of the pre- and postnatal mouse, using both in situ hybridization (ISH) and transgenic mouse techniques. It includes a collection of pictorial gene expression maps of the brain and spinal cord of the mouse.

Hudsen, Human Developmental Studies Network The HUDSEN human spatial gene expression database is an open resource of gene expression patterns observed during early human development.

Gene Expression in Tooth The 'gene expression in tooth database' contains gene expression patterns of different cells and compartments of the tooth at distinct time points, as determined by in situ hybridization or by immunostaining.

Homer The Human Organ-specific Molecule Electronic Repository (Homer) is a comprehensive database covering about 22809 genes/proteins detailed in and filtered from expression and disease-related databases such as, dbEST, TiSGeD, human plasma proteins (HPA), The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) and Disease Ontology. All genes are postnatally expressed in humans.

BioGPS The human GNF bioGPS dataset examined a panel of 79 human tissue and cell samples. RNA samples were hybridized to two microarray platforms: Affymetrix U133A array (GPL96) and GN1H custom array (GPL1074), enabling testing 44775 human transcripts.

Tissue-specific Gene Expression and Regulation (TiGER) TiGER (Tissue-specific Gene Expression and Regulation) is a database that provides comprehensive information about postnatal human tissue-specific gene regulation, including expression (from EST studies) and regulatory elements.

The Gene Expression Barcode The Barcode database provides gene expression information about thousands of mouse and human samples from different normal and cancerous cells/tissues obtained pre- or postnatally.

Hematopoietic Fingerprints 'Hematopoietic Fingerprints' is an expression database of postnatal stem cells and their progeny. Microarray profiling using the Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 array, defines sets of genes that are specific to bone marrow-derived hematopoietic stem cells and their different immunological progeny.

Haematlas The HaemAtlas database provides gene expression data of human erythroblasts, megakaryocytes, B cells, cytotoxic and helper T cells, natural killer cells, granulocytes, and monocytes. These cells were purified from the blood of 7 healthy adults.