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; Subject Index.

1. 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; Subject Index.