Includes bibliographical references and index.

Development of diverse hematopoietic cell: populations from human embryonic stem cells / Rizwan Romee, Ketan Doshi, and Dan S. Kaufman -- Using embryonic stem cells as a model of pancreatic development / Zhaohui Geng, Lucas Chase, and Meri T. Firpo -- Approaches to identifying nuclear reprogramming: factors from embryonic stem cell biology and somatic cell nuclear cloning / Nobuaki Kikyo -- Cell cycle control of stem cell fate / Lucas Nacusi and Robert Sheaff -- Multipotent adult progenitor cells / Yuehua Jiang, April Breyer, and Catherine Verfaillie -- Ocular surface epithelial stem cells / De-Quan Li and Andrew J.W. Huang -- Stem cells in skeletal muscle regeneration / Atsushi Asakura -- Myogenic precursor cells in the extraocular muscles / Kristen M. Kallestad and Linda K. McLoon -- Treating the continuum of coronary heart disease with progenitor-cell-based repair: the University of Minnesota experience / Doris A. Taylor, Jonathan D. McCue, and Andrey G. Zenovich -- Postnatal stem cells for myocardial repair / Mohammad Nurulqadr Jameel ... [et al.] --

Use of a beta-galactosidase reporter coupled to cell-specific promoters to examine differentiation of neural progenitor cells in vivo and in vitro / Dale S. Gregerson -- From neural stem cells to neuroregeneration / Terry C. Burns, Walter C. Low, and Catherine M. Verfaillie -- Cochlear stem cells/progenitors / Jizhen Lin, Water Low, and Catherine Verfaillie -- Intravascular delivery systems for stem cell transplantation in neurologic disorders / Vallabh Janardhan, Adnan I. Qureshi, and Walter C. Low -- Stem cell strategies for treating inner ear dysfunction / John H. Anderson and Steven K. Juhn -- Renal stem cells / Sandeep Gupta and Mark E. Rosenberg -- Liver stem cells in regenerative medicine / Xin Wang ... [et al.] -- Clinical manufacture of stem cells and derivative cell populations / David H. McKenna and John Wagner -- Stem cell culture engineering / Kartik Subramanian and Wei-Shou Hu.