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 ...

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

Researchers at the University of British Columbia developed a reliable method to produce helper T cells from stem cells by precisely tuning Notch signaling, enabling scalable, off-the-shelf immune ...

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 our bodies, promising revolutionary medical treatments. However, ...

Stem cells are unspecialized cells that have the remarkable ability to develop into various types of cells in the body. They serve as a repair system, dividing essentially without limit to replenish ...

A Las Vegas hospital has achieved a major milestone as staff celebrates the completion of its 100th stem cell transplant. The ...

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 ...

Researchers have unlocked a way to grow the immune system’s “conductors” from stem cells, bringing ready-made cancer-fighting therapies a big step closer. For the first time, scientists at the Univers ...

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

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 ...

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 ...