Molecular biology of the gamete / Danielle Vitiello and Emre U Seli -- Differentiation of germ cells from stem cells / Celso Silva, Lisa Salvador and Jerome F Strauss III -- Stem cell support of ovary function and fertility / Joshua Johnson -- Adult stem cells in the human ovary: hope or fiction? / Mónica Romeu, Carlos Simon, and Antonio Pellicer -- Adult stem cells in the human ovary / Antonin Bukovsky and Irma Virant-Klun -- Signaling germline commitment / Shu-Hsin Chen and Niels Geijsen -- Adult stem cell population in the testis / Herman Tournaye and Ellen Goossens -- Human embryonic stem cells: a model for trophoblast differentiation and placental morphogenesis / Thaddeus G Golos and Behzad Gerami-Nain -- Adult stem cells in the human endometrium / Caroline E. Gargett -- Bone marrow-derived stem cells in the human endometrium / Ivan Araujo Penna and Hugh S Taylor -- Selection of embryos for stem cell derivation: can we optimize the process? / Anna Veiga ... [et al.] -- Harvesting of embryonic stm cells aimed at embryo conservation / Takumi Takeuchi ... [et al.] -- Embryo-friendly approaches to human embryonic cell derivation / Irina Klimanskaya -- Human embryonic stem cell culture in feeder-free, xeno-free conditions / Amparo Galán, Antonio Pellicer, and Carlos Simon -- Cell polarity, pluripotency, and differentiation / Ana Krtolica and Olga Genbacev -- Role of oxygen in early development and embryonic stem cell derivation / Olga Genbacev, Paolo F Rinaudo, and Emin Maltepe -- Nuclear reprogramming / Keith HS Campbell -- Nuclear transfer and its applications in regenerative medicine / Vanessa Jane Hall and Miodrag Stojkovic.