Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of ...

The word “niche” implies a specialized environment. But to Fiona Doetsch, the stem cell niche is anything but. For brain stem cells, “the whole organism is the niche,” Doetsch told the audience at the ...

WASHINGTON — With the active encouragement of the Bush administration, American scientists in the past year have developed several methods for creating embryonic stem cells without having to destroy ...

Robert Madson has spent most of his life in the Air Force. After 28 deployments and flying all over the world in cramped ...

A team of scientists has mapped the regions surrounding stem cells in planarians—small flatworms that are famous for being able to regrow whole bodies from small fragments—and discovered something ...

National Taiwan University researchers, with collaborators in Taiwan and the US, report that adipocyte lipolysis activates ...

Study findings suggest using the drug PF-06409577 to restore CDX2 in colon cancers could cut risk of recurrence and death by up to 50%.

They’re growing miniature 3D brains from stem cells. These aren’t your fictional mad scientists’ brains in a vat; they’re ...

Tricking cancer cells into self-destructing could reduce risk of recurrence and death in colon cancer by 50%. Results also ...