A groundbreaking clinical trial is testing whether specially engineered stem cells can help the brain restore its own dopamine production in people with Parkinson’s disease. Because the condition is ...

Elderly people with frailty, which affects up to one-quarter of over-50s, increased their endurance after a single dose of ...

A team led by University of Osaka researchers has developed a technique to generate testes from mouse embryonic stem cells ...

The Wyoming legislature unanimously passed a bill giving residents the ability to ask doctors for experimental stem cell therapies.

Researchers found muscle stem cells temporarily reduce PFKM-driven glucose metabolism after stress, rerouting fuel to antioxidant repair before rebuilding. Targeting this metabolic checkpoint could ...

Science succeeds by failure, just as surely as it works by success. We slowly come to know how the physical world works by learning that what we thought was true is all wrong. Science teaches us to ...

Real-time dynamic image analysis delivers detailed concentration measurements critical for distinguishing stem cell populations from debris.

A Phase I clinical trial published in The Lancet has shown that combining stem cell therapy with standard fetal surgery before birth is a safe and promising approach to treat myelomeningocele, a ...

Scientists in China have unveiled a breakthrough way to mass-produce powerful cancer-fighting immune cells in the lab. By ...

Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of cell in our bodies, promising revolutionary medical treatments. However, ...

When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...