The father of a teenage leukaemia patient has offered to donate his stem cells to his own son, after the transplant from the ...

A stem cell therapy for stroke restored neuron function and revealed how transplanted cells navigate the nervous system.

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

Recently, a new phenomenon related to stem cell aging was observed in a study at the Sanford Stem Cell Research Institute in UC San Diego (UCSD). The research team found that the microgravity and ...

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

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) can cure serious blood diseases but still carries a high risk of complications and death. This study shows that when stem cells are ...

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During their preparation for this battle, B cells transiently revert to a more ...