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 ...

In many animal tissues, stem cells continually divide to create new cells that replace old or damaged ones. However, this ...

IT HAS been a roller-coaster year for one of the most exciting areas in biology. Can stem cells really replace tissues lost to age or disease? There have been both ground-breaking discoveries and some ...

Khloé Kardashian has "fallen in love with stem cells." And she's not the only celebrity to embrace a new treatment that proclaims to reduce chronic pain and even provide anti-aging benefits. "I work ...

More than 100 clinical trials put stem cells for regenerative medicine to the test. It’s a turning point for a field beset with ethical and political controversy. Andrew Cassy had spent his working ...

Cancer cells work together to source nutrients from their environment -- a cooperative process that was previously overlooked by scientists but may be a promising target for treating cancer. Cancer ...

From “paradigm changer” to “sloppy and irresponsible“. In just two months, two papers revealing a simple way to turn adult cells into embryonic-like stem cells went from being heralded as ...

Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...