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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

In this MedPage Today interview, Leigh Turner, PhD, a professor of health policy and bioethics at the University of California Irvine, unpacks the growing influence of stem cell clinics and the ...

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

Dr. Matthew Matasar discusses why stem cell transplant is still a standard, life-saving option in blood cancers and how CAR-T ...

Robert Madson has spent most of his life in the Air Force. After 28 deployments and flying all over the world in cramped ...

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 ...