Scientists have the technology to grow humans in Petri dishes, but they say there are better uses for it: to combat aging.

If you have a stem cell transplant, diseased or damaged stem cells in your body are replaced with healthy new ones. “To be a stem cell donor gives a patient with a blood disease like leukemia or ...

How alterations in cell metabolism translate into specific developmental gene programs remains a major question. This study ...

A stem cell-based infection model for hepatitis D virus (HDV) enables detailed analysis of infection dynamics, revealing that overexpression of the transcription factor IRF1 inhibits HDV ...

In an effort to explain a modern medical mystery, an international team of researchers led by the University of California ...

Louise Cato is attempting to break a world record dressed as a stem cell A woman is attempting to break a world record for running the London Marathon dressed as a blood stem cell. Louise Cato ...

An international team has identified a potential microbial culprit behind the alarming rise in early-onset colorectal cancer: a bacterial toxin called colibactin. Scientists report that exposure to ...

Stem cells are often described as the body's master cells. Healthy stem cells can restore the blood system after cancer treatment. Listen to Story Stem cell transplants have emerged as a vital ...

Stem cell therapies are a type of cell therapy in which the cells used are either stem cells (as in the case of bone marrow transplantation) or are derived from stem cells, as is this case with ...