Stem cells are special in the way they can keep on replicating, and turn themselves into many other types of cell.

In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Florida have found that stem cells cultivated in space show ...

What is special about Platynereis dumerilii is that, unlike other species, regeneration in marine worms does not rely on existing stem cells. Instead, differentiated cells undergo what is known as ...

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Researchers led by Osaka University in Japan have conducted the first human trial using induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived ...

Scientists have reprogrammed mouse cells into pluripotent stem cells using a gene from choanoflagellates, single-celled ...

Instead of sending tourists to space, scientists have found a more practical use for the final frontier: growing better ...

Stem cell therapy has emerged as a promising approach not only on harnessing stem cells for their potential to regenerate the lost cardiomyocytes but also on their capacity to stimulate the ...

What can microgravity teach us about stem cell growth? This is what a recent study published in NPJ Microgravity hopes to address as a pair of researchers from the Mayo Clinic investigated past ...