Stem Cells

For wounds to close, cells need to move collectively in one direction in a coordinated fashion. Until now the central...

Stem cells from the dental pulp of wisdom teeth can be coaxed to turn into cells of the eye's cornea...

A new study has revealed how stem cells work to improve lung function in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Previous...

In the bone marrow, blood stem cells give rise to a large variety of mature blood cells via progenitor cells...

After using optical tweezers to squeeze a tiny bead attached to the outside of a human stem cell, researchers now...

Cell cultures used in biology and medical research may not act as a faithful mimic of real tissue, according to...

A collaborative study led by scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has revealed...

Liver cells derived from stem cells can be infected with malaria and used to test potential drugs. MIT researchers engineered...

For patients with brain cancer, radiation is a powerful and potentially life-saving treatment, but it can also cause considerable and...

MPs in Britain have voted for the use of controversial techniques to create babies from the DNA of three people....

A research group has revealed how a seemingly simple animal is able to produce nerve cells throughout its entire body....

When a salamander loses a tail, it grows a new one. What’s the difference, biologist Peter Reddien wondered, between a...

In a new study from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), researchers have used human pluripotent stem cells to generate new...

How do stem cells preserve their ability to become any type of cell in the body? And how do they...

Results from a preliminary study indicate that among patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), treatment with nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell...

Stem cells derived from human amnion have for some time been considered promising for cell therapies because of their ease...

A see-through zebrafish and enhanced imaging provide the first direct glimpse of how blood stem cells take root in the...

A stem cell capable of regenerating both bone and cartilage has been identified in bone marrow of mice. The discovery...

In a groundbreaking study that provides scientists with a critical new understanding of stem cell development and its role in...

The body has evolved ways to get rid of faulty stem cells. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published...