Progress in Stem Cell

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Authors: Phuc Van Pham, Ngoc Kim Phan

Welcome to the new open access journal Progress in Stem Cell, edited by Dr. Phuc Van Pham, and Dr. Ngoc Kim Phan, of Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Progress in Stem Cell (ISSN 2199-4633) is the Open Access journal that acts as a forum for translational research into stem cell therapies. Progress in Stem Cell is scientific journal that overlays the study of cancer stem cells, stem cell therapy, stem-cell transplantation, human embryonic stem cells, neural stem cells, murine embryonic stem cells, adult stem cell... Progress in Stem Cell is a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the areas of established and emerging concepts in stem cell research and their assorted disease therapies. It provides an opportunity to share the scientific information among the clinical & medical scientists and researchers. Progress in Stem Cell publishes the most complete and reliable source of information on the discoveries and current developments in the mode of editorial, original research, review, commentary, letter in all areas of stem cell from basic research to pre-clinical trials and clinical trials.

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Authors: Wei Seong Toh

Significant efforts have been undertaken in the last decade in the development of stem cell-based therapies for cartilage repair. To improve the clinical efficacy of stem cells for articular cartilage repair, understanding the factors and conditions that influence stem cell chondrogenesis in their lineage-specific differentiation and phenotypic stability of the cartilage formation following differentiation would be necessary. In this progress update, we discuss the use of the various sources of stem cells, induction factors including growth factors, oxygen tension and biomaterial scaffolds, and some of the cell-cell/matrix interactions and underlying mechanisms that regulate stem cell chondrogenesis towards stable cartilage formation.