With age, teeth get increasingly brittle and susceptible to damage from tooth decay, which can eventually lead to tooth loss.

As the agency evaluates the utility of human embryonic stem cells in research, scientists warn that restricting the cells ...

Gut stem cells can detect invading bacteria and transform into bacteria-killing cells, revealing an unexpected immune defense ...

The intravenous infusion of mesenchymal stem cells from family donors is safe and improves symptoms such as pruritus (itching ...

Muscle stem cells, which are crucial for building new muscle, don’t work as well as we get older, but giving them an ...

Scientists have discovered that transplanted stem cell-derived brain cells may do far more than simply survive after a stroke ...

As blood stem cells age, their lysosomes become overactive and damaged, triggering inflammation and weakening the body’s ...

PSC-derived cells can reverse type 1 diabetes in mice and may overcome some of the hurdles faced by existing stem cell ...

Distinguished philanthropists, physicians, and researchers gather June 27 to expand breakthrough cancer stem cell ...

Stem cells are special in the way they can keep on replicating, and turn themselves into many other types of cell. Now scientists have discovered how their superpowers get a remarkable boost when they ...

Humans have around 30 trillion cells in our adult bodies. Amazingly, each of these cells came from a handful of about 100 stem cells in the earliest days of development. The ability of these embryonic ...