Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of ...

From cold plunges and sleep tracking, to juice cleanses and functional fitness, there's no shortage of wellness trends to try ...

When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

Cells contain a blueprint in the form of DNA that dictates what they can make. This blueprint is converted into a message ...

A team of scientists has mapped the regions surrounding stem cells in planarians—small flatworms that are famous for being able to regrow whole bodies from small fragments—and discovered something ...

Scripps Research neuroscientist Giordano Lippi is the recipient of a $4 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to study haploinsufficiency, a condition where only ...

New research reveals stem cell therapy significantly lowers heart failure risk in heart attack survivors. Patients receiving ...

A new method developed by scientists could soon make liver disease treatment easier and more effective—without a transplant.

The human brain can do many amazing things, but self-repair is not one of its repertoire of abilities. Once neurons die—from ...

People who receive stem cell therapy within a week of their first heart attack have nearly a 60 per cent lower risk of ...

Patients with weak heart function who receive stem cell therapy shortly after a heart attack are at lower risk of developing heart failure and related hospital stays compared with standard care, finds ...