A cell with similar properties to an embryonic stem cell, but created in the laboratory by 'reprogramming' cells from adult tissues, such as skin cells.
Dopamine-producing cells created from induced pluripotent stem cells and transplanted into rats with Parkinson's disease, successfully alleviated symptoms, a new study has shown...
For the first time, a biomarker for symptoms of psychiatric illness has been discovered using neurons derived from schizophrenia patients' own cells...
The fourth session of the Progress Educational Trust's 2021 annual conference explored the dilemmas regulators face when trying to create legislation to safeguard fertility treatment and embryo research...
For the first time, scientists have engineered a miniature stomach, which displays cellular and functional complexity similar to its human counterpart...
Miniature brain-like structures grown in the laboratory are being used to uncover mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and to screen for effective treatments...
Brain organoids grown in the lab can develop primitive eyes called optic cups, containing key cell types that are able to respond to light...
A mutated protein associated with Alzheimer's disease may trigger the death of brain cells known to be vulnerable in frontotemporal dementia...
An in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) breakthrough has been achieved as mouse stem cells have been used to create egg cells that have successfully developed into live mice when used in IVF...
Germline cells seem to reset their biological clocks around the time of embryo implantation, not when generating gametes, as previously thought...
Stem cell models may help investigate COVID-19 and other lung diseases...
