Adult stem cells are cells in the adult that can both self-renew by dividing and give rise to more specialised cell types present in the tissue in which they reside. They serve to maintain and ...

But Paul Knoepfler, a stem cell biologist at the University of California, Davis, says he is somewhat skeptical of the new finding on evolutionary grounds. “Why would nature give an adult tissue ...

Stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into more mature, specialised cells. Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent ...

One study, which treated 12 patients in the U.S. and Canada, used stem cells from donated human embryos, while the other study injected seven patients with donated adult stem cells in Kyoto ...

A protein related to RNA interference (RNAi) machinery appears to regulate how the adult stem cells differentiate in planarians, scientists reported in the November 25 Science. Relatives of the ...

Growing new organs from scratch, healing old wounds in a flash, and other sci-fi-esque advances. By Andrew Paul By Andrew Paul By Andrew Paul By Laura Baisas By Andrew Paul By Bill Gourgey By ...

Blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma typically start in the bone marrow, the very place where stem cells live and produce healthy blood cells. (Photo: Getty Images) advertisement Treatments ...

Metformin, a widely used and affordable diabetes drug, could prevent a form of acute myeloid leukemia in people at high risk of the disease, a study in mice has suggested. Further research in ...

Stem cells are the only cells in your body that can grow into over 200 different kinds of unique cells. If you have a stem cell transplant, diseased or damaged stem cells in your body are replaced ...

Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers report. The aptamers -- short single ...

The cells, known as human-induced pluripotent stem cells, are typically adult skin or blood cells that have been reprogrammed in a lab to become like embryonic stem cells, which are found in early ...