Stem Cells

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...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge working with the Weizmann Institute have created primordial germ cells – cells that will...

Using modified human stem cells, a team of UC Davis scientists has developed an improved gene therapy strategy that in...