Pluripotent stem cells from the early embryo / Claire E. Cuddy and Martin F. Pera -- The first cell fate decision during mammalian development / Melanie D. White and Nicolas Plachta -- Asymmetric cell divisions of stem/progenitor cells / Ahmed Hk El-hashash -- Microenvironmental modulation of stem cell differentiation / Shimon Lecht, Collin T. Stabler, Athanasios Mantalaris, Ali Samadikuchaksaraei, Mark J. Mondrinos, Julia Polak and Peter I. Lelkes -- Smart matrices -- Mark J. Mondrinos, Shimon Lecht, Collin T. Stabler, Seda Karamil, Pimchanok Pimton and Peter I Lelkes -- Skin stem cells and their roles in skin regeneration and disorders / Chao-kai Hsu, Chao-chun Yang, Shyh-jou Shieh -- Stem cell recruitment and impact in skin repair and regeneration / Tim Hsu, Tai-lan Tuan, and Yun-shain Lee -- Epigenetic and environmental regulation of skin appendage regeneration / Ting-xin Jiang, Chih-chiang Chen, Michael W. Hughes, Cheng-ming Chuong and Randall Widelitz -- Cranial neural crest : an extraordinarily migratory and multipotent embryonic cell population / Samuel G. Cox and J. Gage Crump -- Modeling neurodegenerative diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders with reprogrammed cells / Kate E. Galloway and Justin K. Ichida -- Cytokine regulation of intestinal stem cells / Philip E. DubΓ©, Unice J.K. Soh, and D. Brent Polk -- The intestinal stem cell niche and its regulation by ErbB growth factor receptors / Dana Almohazey and Mark R. Frey -- Tissue engineering : intestine / Avafia Y. Dossa, Kathy A. Schall, Tracy C. Grikscheit, and Christopher P. Gayer -- Liver stem and progenitor cells in development, disease and regenerative medicine / Nirmala Mavila and Kasper S. Wang -- Lung mesenchyme stem cells / Wei Shi -- FGF signaling in lung stem and progenitor cells / Soula Danopoulos and Denise Al Alam -- Bioengineering distal airways / Christine Finck, Todd Jensen -- The isolation and molecular characterization of aggressive endophenotypes in individual lung cancers / Raj K Batra, Scott Oh, and Saroj Basak -- Mesenchymal stromal cell-based therapies for lung diseases and critical illnesses / Fernanda Cruz, Patricia RM Rocco, Daniel J. Weiss -- Heart regeneration and repair : what we have learned from model organisms / Laurent Gamba, Michael R. Harrison and Ching-Ling Lien -- Leveraging structure-based rational drug design and nanotechnology to destroy leukemic stem cells / Fatih M. Uckun, Jianjun Cheng, Cheney Mao, Sanjive Qazi -- Placenta-derived stem cells : development and preclinical applications for regenerative medicine / Jennifer Izumi Divine, Hee Kyung Jung, and Toshio Miki -- Stem cells in the real world : environmental impacts / Theresa M. Bastain, Lu Gao, and Frank D. Gilliland -- A comprehensive guide to establishing a research grade human pluripotent stem cell laboratory / Laura-Marie Nucho and Victoria Fox.