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.
Two stem cell-based therapies for Parkinson's disease demonstrate safety and potential clinical benefits in early clinical trials...
Injecting neural stem cells into patients with spinal cord injuries may help improve their motor function...
Gene silencing that causes Prader-Willi syndrome can be efficiently undone by using CRISPR-based epigenome editing, new research has revealed...
Heart function in damaged hearts could be improved using a patch of stem cell derived heart muscle...
Mice with two fathers have been created using genome editing, and have survived into adulthood...
The first live human birth using a novel technology that uses induced pluripotent stem cells to support egg maturation outside the body has been reported...
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published recommendations calling for clear legislative action to differentiate stem-cell-based embryos from embryos and to safeguard against ethical breaches...
Functional mouse induced pluripotent stem cells were generated using genes originating in an ancient unicellular organism and injected into a mouse embryo to create chimeric mice...
Stem cell models of early preimplantation human embryos have been shown to retain the capacity to pause development, using a mechanism observed in other mammals...
A 25 year-old female patient with type 1 diabetes is producing insulin one year after receiving an injection of islet cells, created from her own cells...
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