Breakthrough computer models reveal how the bladder lining regenerates. They show how its cells divide and mature, similar to ...

Here is some background information about stem cells. Scientists believe that stem cell research can be used to treat medical conditions including Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, stroke, ...

Microglia are a specialized type of immune cell that accounts for about 10% of all cells within the brain and spinal cord.

The stem cell-based embryo model (SCBEM) takes advantage of the flexibility of pluripotent stem cells (non-reproductive cells ...

Mar. 27, 2025 — Glucose is life's main energy source. But a new study reveals a surprising role as a master manipulator of tissue maturation, hinting at its importance in diabetes and ...

Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent, depending on the number of cell types to which they can give rise. Experiments in mice reveal an early postnatal window of ...

Stem cells have traditionally been characterized as either embryonic (pluripotent) or organ-specific. Recent work suggests that the latter can "transdifferentiate" into other cell types ...

A new cancer treatment discovered by the University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute (SSCI) and developed ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how cells responsible for hair growth perceive physical forces in their ...

Jude Children's Research Hospital, the National Center for Genomic Analysis and the University of Adelaide have created a single-cell RNA analysis ... elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer ...