What are Pluripotent Stem Cells? Pluripotent stem cells are a type of stem cell that has the remarkable ability to differentiate into any cell type in the body, except for extraembryonic tissues like ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

Messenger RNA can travel between different types of stem cells through tunnel-like structures, as revealed by a new study. By studying interactions between mouse and human stem cells, they discovered ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye—called the ...

New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

From axolotls to zebrafish, stem cells possess remarkable regenerative abilities, enabling them to restore lost limbs and repair damaged organs. These extraordinary capabilities, however, are not ...

For the first time, researchers at the University of British Columbia have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important ...

A woman with Type 1 diabetes who was treated with her own stem cells subsequently started producing insulin on her own, making her the first person with this type of diabetes to reverse her condition ...

AMES, Iowa – A decade ago, Raquel Espin Palazon discovered that inflammatory signaling pathways must switch on for embryos to produce blood stem cells. The latest work from her lab shows the potential ...