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 ...

Work likely to be halted by the cuts includes the collection of data for studying Americans with sickle cell, a painful blood disorder that predominantly affects Black families, as well as ...

Intestinal stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells, which in mammals reside in the base of the crypts of the adult intestine. Intestinal stem cells continuously self-renew by dividing and ...

Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, United States; Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, United ...

A recent study found that placenta-derived IL1 under hypoxic conditions, can greatly increase growth of human stem cell-derived liver organoids. By promoting liver progenitor cell expansion ...

He decided to take a chance on a clinical trial at Mass Eye and Ear for a procedure that's the first of its kind in the U.S. "The name of it is cultivated autologous limbal epithelial stem cell ...

A paralyzed patient stood unaided after receiving stem cell injections Two participants showed significant improvement, while two others had less progress Stem cells are injected at the injury ...

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 ...

Stem cell injections are one such treatment. A new review my colleagues and I published this week finds that evidence of their benefits and harms remains elusive. Stem cells are already ...

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 ...

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 ...