Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye—called the ...

Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of cell in our bodies, promising revolutionary medical treatments. However, ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." THOUGH THEY'RE CURRENTLY only approved to treat a small group of diseases, researchers are exploring a ...

For the first time, researchers at the University of British Columbia have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important ...

Researchers say study findings may lead to a more promising future for cell therapy targeting stroke and other neurological disorders.

The study, published in British scientific journal Nature, suggests that the disease may begin in basal stem cells — ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved stem cell therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, people could participate in clinical trials involving this ALS treatment.

In the early 2000s, dental clinician and stem cell researcher Songtao Shi’s six-year-old daughter lost her first tooth. Curious, Shi, then at the University of Pennsylvania, took a closer look at its ...

The 25-year-old woman is still making her own insulin a year after having gotten a transplant of her modified stem cells, scientists say. Reading time 2 minutes We might someday be able to have ...