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Scientists have long been intrigued by the ability of flatworms to regenerate complete bodies from small fragments of tissue.

WASHINGTON — With the active encouragement of the Bush administration, American scientists in the past year have developed several methods for creating embryonic stem cells without having to destroy ...

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 ...

A leading bioethicist at Hiroshima University is calling for an anticipatory, rather than reactive, approach to ethics after ...

Platelets are small, disc-shaped cell fragments in the blood that are essential to stop bleeding and to initiate blood ...

Although controversial fetal stem cells hog the limelight, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which give rise to the entire adult blood system, quietly facilitate high-dose chemotherapy on a regular ...

For the first time, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have succeeded in using nanorobots to stimulate ...

Scientists at the University of Osaka have developed a novel hydrogel that enables the efficient, three-dimensional (3D) ...

Gallant is developing FDA-regulated, off-the-shelf mesenchymal stromal cell therapies to rapidly modulate inflammation, support tissue repair, and make stem cell treatment broadly available to cats ...