President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...

A woman with heart failure was kept alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, in part thanks to newly developed ...

Stem cell therapy has come a long way since its early days. As an athlete who has undergone it twice, I know that the ...

When we developed the ability to convert various cells into a stem cell, it held the promise of an entirely new type of therapy. Rather than getting the body to try to fix itself with its cells or ...

Jennifer Doudna and her team invented the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology to cut out defective parts of a person’s genome and insert new ones, thereby banishing organic diseases and defects to ...

Your child might have a stem cell transplant as part of their treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Having a transplant means destroying as many leukaemia cells as possible and replacing ...

First Mouse With Two Male Parents to Reach Adulthood Jan. 28, 2025 — A team of stem cell scientists have successfully used embryonic stem cell engineering to create a bi-paternal mouse -- a ...

Every cell in our body contains the entire genetic program to become any cell type. Such cells are called “stem cells”. But once turned into a muscle cell, it can never evolve into a neuron. So, we ...

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 reason that tonsils may grow back is that one of the operations to remove them is a partial tonsillectomy. Only removing ...