Plants adapt their water consumption to environmental conditions by counting and calculating environmental stimuli with their guard cells.

Neuroscientists have uncovered a mechanism that controls the reactivation of neural stem cells, which are crucial for repairing and regenerating brain cells. The research offers exciting potential for ...

A study led by Umeå University, Sweden, presents new discoveries about how stem cells develop and transition into specialised cells. The discovery can provide increased understanding of how cells ...

The FDA has sent a warning letter to a company charging that its adipose-derived stem cell treatments -- known as stromal ...

In June 2023, Peking University researchers successfully reversed type 1 diabetes in a patient, opening the possibility of a ...

Image credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images. A woman has undergone a stem-cell therapy made from her own cells, to treat her type 1 diabetes. Researchers in China discovered the woman did not ...

Stem cell clinics have popped up throughout California, promising cures and relief for arthritis, Alzheimer’s and other conditions through cutting-edge technologies. Some, however, are offering ...

Tuft cells act as reserve stem cells One of the most important discoveries the researchers made was that tuft cells can proliferate when immunological cues trigger them. "Upon receiving such ...

BOSTON - Boston is home to a National STEM Champion, an eleventh-grader whose project revolved around gene therapy. A student at Boston Latin School, Evan Ding may look like your average high ...

Research by a Stanford University team of scientists has shed new light on how and why neural stem cells (NSCs), the cells behind the generation of new neurons in the adult brain, become less ...

Clues to keeping the brain’s regenerative cells youthful and energetic into old age have emerged by applying CRISPR gene editing to mice 1 . Age impedes the ability of the brain’s stem cells ...

Emerging studies over the last decade have pointed to a potential cure using stem cells, which have the special ability to grow and differentiate into different types of cells. Scientists ...