Tag: stem cells

It could be a game changer in regenerative medicine.

Starting from meager skin cells, scientists want to generate artificial northern white rhino eggs to replenish the population.

We're not there yet, but there seems to be a lot of promise in this idea.

Fighting the virus is just half the battle. The other half is repairing the damage.

The infant was too small for surgery, so doctors bought it some time.

An exciting, and compact, alternative to skin grafts.

The embryos successfully grew fetal structures in female mice uteruses.

It's a bit unusual, to say the least -- but could be quite useful.

But can they fix a broken heart?

Smarts, we got'em!

Science may one day open the way to the 'Fountain of Youth'.

Researchers safely and effectively implanted a specially engineered patch of retinal pigment epithelium cells derived from stem cells to treat people ...

The innovative method could help millions of people who suffer from osteoporosis.

Everyone says this is a massive breakthrough in biology.

Healing wounds might become a whole lot easier.

Japanese researchers found a novel way to grow corneas in a dish starting from skin cells. The corneas were implanted ...

A restored, functioning cornea found in a mouse, that used human harvested limbal stem cells. Image:  Kira Lathrop, Bruce Ksander, ...

In a feat that surprised even the scientists who made the experiment, mice disabled by a condition similar to multiple sclerosis ...

Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, aged 115. Photo: wikia.com No matter how much some would like to avoid this prospect, death is ...

Strands of engineered muscle fiber, stained different colors to observe growth after implantation into a mouse. Duke University Heralded as ...

Photo: freefoto.com Sure to raise a slew of controversy and debate, researchers in Japan are currently investigating the possibility of ...

Biotechnology is growing fast and the findings researchers are making the field are nothing short of breathtaking. Previously, ZME Science ...

Scientists at the   Salk Institute for Biological Studies have for the first time coaxed   human stem cells into forming three-dimensional cellular ...

Most medical research looking to identify the mechanisms of a disease or test treatments rely on animal models. While very ...

Regenerative medicine has come a long way, and while important strides forward have been made, scientists are still toiling with ...

A few years ago ZME Science reported how a group of researchers at University of Maastricht in Holland were on a mission ...

A new study performed by scientists in China has further elevated stem cell research after they successfully grew teeth-like structures ...

This laser microscopy image shows iPSC-generated endovascular cells in green, connective tissue cells in blue, and red blood cells in ...

Researchers at  University of California, Davis have shown for the first time how whole cells and fragments orient and move in ...

One of the miracles of modern day medicine science, stem cells, are regarded by scientists as the basic building blocks ...

We're only in the early days of 3-D printing, but even now the breakthroughs made using such technology are most ...

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 ...

Adult mice grown from eggs and sperm induced by pluripotent stem cells. (c) Mitinori Saitou and Katsuhiko Hayashi Kyoto University ...

In an exceptional feat of medical and technical ingenuity, scientists have been able to restore partial hearing to deaf gerbils ...

A scheme of the generation of induced pluripotent stern (IPS) cells In an extraordinary feat of science, Japanese scientists have used ...

An interesting conversation can instantly make a turn for the worst when bad breath hops into the scene. We've all ...

Detailed in a recently published study, a team of ophthalmologists have successfully managed to improve the vision of both of ...

The rhesus monkey twins, Roku and Hex ("six" in Japanesse and Greek respectively, since they were made from six distinct ...

According to a new study by researchers at University of Melbourne, prolonged stem cell cultures are subjected to a relatively significant risk ...

Amidst of all the talks and protest against stem cell treatment and companies shutting down, nature has found its own ...

A recently published remarkable study describes how scientists from Japan have successfully manage to grow teeth inside a lab using ...

If we're to guide ourselves after Aubrey de Grey's telling, according to his predictions the first person who will live ...

In a breakthrough discovery that could revolutionize transplants, British researchers have managed to create human kidneys from stem cells, which ...

Researchers have managed to restore light perception to mice through gene therapy, by inserting algae genes into the retina. The ...

A research published earlier today in Stem Cells relates how stem cells scientists in Australia have managed to show that ...

In was is a historic day, US doctors have officially begun the first trial of using human embryonic stem cells, ...

Researchers are always seeking more and more ways that are viable and safe for gathering stem cells. Now it seems ...

As expected, genetics evolves everyday and finds more new and unexpected solutions to some of the most puzzling problems we ...

The ethical and moral aspects of using stem cells have been discussed a lot and it seems there is no ...