Our bodies can heal themselves in amazing ways. Cuts close and muscles recover after exercise. But healing has limits, ...

Epidermal stem cells oversee the skin’s ability to respond to stressors from the outside world and then return to a steady ...

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 ...

Scientists have turned blood cells from an 80-year-old into neural stem cells with a molecular age of less than 20, ...

When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

Aging is the price paid for the ability of experiencing existence, one might philosophize. Natural cellular aging begins with ...

In the fly gut, stem cells keep the balance of cell types by undergoing eight rounds of cell division to form absorptive cells, then one round to form secretory cells. Read the paper: Intestinal stem ...

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 ...

The Michael J. Fox Foundation provides info on stem cell clinical trials for Parkinson’s and how to find available studies ...

Researchers developed an in vitro micronucleus test using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived T lymphocytes, which ...

As the steadfast protector of the body's interior, the skin must be able to swiftly respond to stressors from the outside ...