Your skin is in a constant state of reinvention. Every month, your body sheds and regenerates its entire outer layer—a ...

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 ...

Jennifer Zenker receives funding from NHMRC and Viertel Foundation. Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as “miracle” cells –ones that can grow into any other type of cell in ...

Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer care by training the immune system to detect and destroy tumors. For many patients, ...

Our understanding of human placenta formation just deepened with the discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic ...

Stem cell therapy is an emerging treatment for type 2 diabetes. Although it’s not yet FDA-approved in the United States, it is a rapidly expanding and promising field of research. Stem cells are ...

Over the past few decades, advances in hematology have illuminated how a delicate balance between stem cell self-renewal and ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg can now demonstrate previously unexplained processes behind growth therapy. It ...

Adult skeletal muscle is a tissue with a high capacity for regeneration due to the existence of stem cell population, termed ...