A new study has found that up to 66 percent of cancer-causing mutations can be attributed to random mistakes made during DNA replication...
In two different attempts to treat degenerative eye diseases with stem cells, three patients have been blinded, while disease progression has been stopped in a separate patient...
Cancer risk is not linked to different rates of adult stem-cell division in organs, a study suggests...
A new stem cell treatment has reversed scarring in heart failure patients by 40 percent, and also improved recovery and survival, a small-scale trial has demonstrated...
Spanish scientists say they have created rudimentary sperm-like cells from skin and bone marrow cells taken from adult males...
Scientists in China have used stem cells to create rudimentary sperm that successfully fertilised mouse eggs to produce healthy offspring...
In a research first, a section of light-sensing tissue, closely resembling the human retina, has been grown in the laboratory from human stem cells...
A paper in the journal Stem Cell Reports has reignited debate among a section of the stem cell research community. The study calls into question the existence of a type of cell that, if validated, would have great potential for use in regenerative medicine...
Can you grow an organ in the lab? Can you grow new cells to replace diseased ones? Embryonic stem cells have the potential to grow into any cell in the body, but how is the cell type determined?...
Human stem cells have been converted into bone cells using a technique called 'nanokicking'...
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