“It brings us closer to the possibility of replacement organs grown in petri dishes and wounds that can be swiftly healed.” About seven days after conception, something remarkable occurs in... Read more
“PLURIPOTENT” is a long word that means “able to do many things”. It is the technical term applied to stem cells that can generate many different sorts of bodily tissue, rather than just one... Read more
A new study offers proof that stem cells can reconnect the inner ear to the brain More than 275 million people have moderate-to-profound hearing loss, and many of those cases are caused by a... Read more
Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a reliable method to turn the clock back on blood cells, restoring them to a primitive stem cell state from which they can then develop into any other... Read more
Human-derived stem cells can spontaneously form the tissue that develops into the part of the eye that allows us to see . . . according to a study published by Cell Press in the 5th annivers... Read more
Scientists have recently succeeded in rejuvenating cells from elderly donors (aged over 100). These old cells were reprogrammed in vitro to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) and t... Read more
In a world first, scientists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have created functioning fetal intestinal tissue from pluripotent stem cells. Both human embryonic stem cells... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A new technique that allows blood to be made directly from skin cells has been discovered. The pioneering approach by Canadian researchers uses human skin stem cells to c... Read more