As blood stem cells age, their lysosomes become overactive and damaged, triggering inflammation and weakening the body’s ability to regenerate healthy blood and immune cells. By calming this cellular ...

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

Researchers have tested a gene-edited stem cell transplant designed to shield healthy blood-forming cells from powerful ...

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

Every year, roughly 6.5 million Americans struggle with chronic wounds that refuse to close. The majority are over 65. Their ...

The human brain can do many amazing things, but self-repair is not one of its repertoire of abilities. Once neurons die—from trauma, stroke, or disease—they rarely grow back. Scientists have been ...

A team led by USC Stem Cell scientist Zhongwei Li, PhD, has produced some of the most complex and mature lab-grown kidney ...

Humans have around 30 trillion cells in our adult bodies. Amazingly, each of these cells came from a handful of about 100 ...

Scientists say stem cell transplantation is often the only potential cure for some highly aggressive types of blood cancer ...

Chinese scientists have achieved an important medical breakthrough by creating the world’s first laboratory-grown sinoatrial node, often called the heart’s master conductor. This tiny part of the ...

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