Bone marrow plays a crucial role in maintaining hematopoietic stem cells and bone homeostasis. However, research has been ...

Researchers have created a way to guide and control the development of stem cells into specific tissues and organs, opening the door to developing a means of one day tackling complex diseases like ...

A group of immune proteins called the inflammasome can help prevent blood stem cells from becoming malignant by removing certain receptors from their surfaces and blocking cancer gene activity, ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. For survivors of the most common type of stroke, called an ...

A stem cell clinic the FDA found to be operating illegally plans to appeal the agency's authority to the Supreme Court. The ...

Limbal stem-cell deficiency is a rare disease affecting ... These cells were then transformed into a thin, transparent sheet of cobblestone-shaped corneal epithelial cells. During the surgical ...

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 ...

induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. They took blood cells from a healthy donor and reprogrammed them into an embryonic-like ...

How can we ensure that life-saving drugs or genetic therapies reach their intended target cells without causing harmful side effects? Researchers have taken an important step to answer this question.

Muscle stem cells are adult stem cells, present in skeletal muscle tissue, which can self-renew and are capable of giving rise to skeletal muscle cells. These stem cells are activated in response ...