A cell that can multiply and give rise to a variety of other, more specialised cell types. For example, stem cells in the bone marrow make many different blood cells.
New research using brain organoids suggests that stem cell senescence, where cells are halted in a suspended state, is responsible for the fetal brain changes caused by sodium valproate...
Mutations which lead to the dominance of certain blood stem cells in the over 70s could be behind some of the health issues people experience in old age...
The question of what is a 'permitted embryo' under the legislation governing assisted reproduction in the UK has received increasing scrutiny as technological progress challenges the concept of embryohood...
A new form of stem cell-based therapy has been developed and tested in mice for the treatment of glioblastoma, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer...
Details of how to develop three-dimensional organoid models of the cervix have been published...
Rat testicle stem cells that were frozen for 23 years and then grafted onto infertile mice, have been shown to produce viable sperm...
Precursors to the stem cells that make blood have been derived in vitro from human pluripotent stem cells for the first time...
Functional sperm have been developed in vitro from rat stem cells and used to fertilise eggs and produce healthy offspring for the first time...
StemGenex, a now-closed stem cell clinic in San Diego, California, has agreed to pay out US$3.65 million as a class action settlement to its former patients for ineffective stem cell treatments they received...
Testicular tubules have been created using a 3D printing technique for the first time ever, which may provide hope for men with infertility...
