Japanese woman is first recipient of next-generation stem cells
Researchers were able to grow sheets of retinal tissue from induced pluripotent stem cells, and have now implanted them for ...
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Chimeric organ harvesting: growing human organs inside pigs
Photo: freefoto.com Sure to raise a slew of controversy and debate, researchers in Japan are currently investigating the possibility of ...
First functioning lung and airway cells grown from human stem cells
Biotechnology is growing fast and the findings researchers are making the field are nothing short of breathtaking. Previously, ZME Science ...
Kidney 3-d structures from human stem cells made for the first time
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have for the first time coaxed human stem cells into forming three-dimensional cellular ...
Scientists grow brain-like tissue in petri dish
Most medical research looking to identify the mechanisms of a disease or test treatments rely on animal models. While very ...
Scientists engineer heart in the lab that beats on its own
Regenerative medicine has come a long way, and while important strides forward have been made, scientists are still toiling with ...
Researchers grow teeth-like structure using stem cells from urine
A new study performed by scientists in China has further elevated stem cell research after they successfully grew teeth-like structures ...
Scientists create functional blood vessels from adult stem cells
This laser microscopy image shows iPSC-generated endovascular cells in green, connective tissue cells in blue, and red blood cells in ...
3D printing stem cells could be used one day to ‘manufacture’ organs
We're only in the early days of 3-D printing, but even now the breakthroughs made using such technology are most ...
New method allows large molecules to get squeezed through cell membranes
A group of researchers at MIT have devised a new method for infiltrating cells with large molecules such as nanoparticles ...
Massive database of of 1,500 stem cell lines derived from diseased cells set to aid drug development
The StemBANCC project, developed as a joint effort between the European Union and Europe’s pharmaceutical industry, is set to culture 1,500 pluripotent stem ...
Making brain cells from urine
Some of the human waste we flush out each day could become valuable research material - a potent source of ...
DNA not the same in every cell of the body, groundbreaking study finds
Popular scientific consensus says that DNA code is identical in every cell of our bodies. A new study from Yale ...
Scientists grow mice from dish-cultured sperm and egg
Adult mice grown from eggs and sperm induced by pluripotent stem cells. (c) Mitinori Saitou and Katsuhiko Hayashi Kyoto University ...
Scientists grow rudimentary human liver in a dish
A scheme of the generation of induced pluripotent stern (IPS) cells In an extraordinary feat of science, Japanese scientists have used ...