Prolonged illnesses like cancer and chronic infections often leave the immune system in a state of exhaustion, where its ...

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

A recent Lancet study has revealed that stem-cell transplants using ... back to an embryonic-like state. These cells are then used to create a transparent tissue sheet, which is grafted onto ...

This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of oxygen and nutrients, killing the cardiomyocytes there. This leads to a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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