Hair is pretty tricky. Unlike almost every other organ in the human body, which finishes its development in the womb, the ...

Getting old doesn't have to mean getting frail. A landmark trial suggests stem cells can reverse the physical decline of ageing ...

A single infusion of stem cells helped frail older adults walk significantly farther.

Every year, thousands of people are blinded suddenly, like Durst, by injuries to their cornea, the dome-shaped lenses that cap each iris. These injuries are often debilitating. In the weeks after his ...

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) today announced the launch of Stem Cell Medicine: Parkinson's Disease, a new continuing education course designed to equip clinicians with an ...

Stanford Medicine pediatric hematologist Agnieszka Czechowicz, MD, Ph.D., has devoted her research career to improving ...

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is pleased to announce Stem Cell COREdinates and CorEUstem as the recipients of the 2026 ISSCR Public Service Award. Together, these two global ...

It’s not every day that high school students get the chance to look at a brain organoid under a microscope or use a laser table or hear about stem cell research in microgravity. But because stem cell ...

Science succeeds by failure, just as surely as it works by success. We slowly come to know how the physical world works by learning that what we thought was true is all wrong. Science teaches us to ...

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 ...