Sickle cell disease causes premature aging of blood stem cells, which scientists may be able to address with a special class ...

Clearance of dying cells is essential to the health of tissues. Study of hair follicles finds that, when follicle stem cells encounter dying neighbours, they become temporarily able to engulf and ...

Young blood stem cells restored key blood-forming and immune functions in aged mice without chemotherapy or radiation. Credit ...

Stem cell transplantation (also called bone marrow transplantation) and gene therapy are among the most powerful curative approaches for blood diseases such as sickle cell disease, b-thalassemia, ...

Surgeons have begun implanting human neural stem cells directly into the brains of people living with early-stage ...

After decades of hype and setbacks, scientists have made impressive progress into tricking stem cells into repairing organs. Stem cells (like the ones above, growing in petri dishes) are able to ...

Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as “miracle” cells –ones that can grow into any other type of cell in our bodies, promising revolutionary medical treatments. However, ...

Clean Cells, a France-based provider of quality testing services for biopharmaceutical products, will acquire Stem Genomics, ...

About 9% of men of reproductive age in the United States experience fertility problems. One of the many causes of male ...