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 ...

Orthopedic non-invasive stem cell therapy regenerates damaged tissue rather than just improving symptoms. Autologous stem cell therapy uses cells from your own body, minimizing rejection risks.

A single infusion of stem cells helped frail older adults walk significantly farther.

DURHAM, N.C. -- It might look like a comet or a shooting star, but this time-lapse video is actually a tiny plant root, not much thicker than a human hair, magnified hundreds of times as it grows ...

Cellular differentiation of stem cells into specialized cells requires many steps, including division, to create more cells; fate determination, which is a commitment to a specific lineage or ...

The two papers covered in the Hot Paper feature 1 are interesting, but the real question is whether the animal models are of any use as models for idiopathic human Parkinson disease (PD). My own view ...

Khloé Kardashian has “fallen in love with stem cells.” And she’s not the only celebrity to embrace a new treatment that proclaims to reduce chronic pain and even provide anti-aging benefits. “I work ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved stem cell therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, people could participate in clinical trials involving this ALS treatment.

FEDERAL POLICY on stem-cell research is moving out of the realm of politics and back into the laboratory where it belongs. The Obama administration last week approved 33 lines of human embryonic stem ...

Scientists have discovered a key biological safeguard that helps one of nature's most impressive regenerators, the planarian ...