Japanese researchers are testing a surprising, minimally invasive way to repair spine fractures. A team at Osaka Metropolitan ...

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

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

Rockefeller scientists uncovered how hair follicle stem cells can switch from growing hair to repairing skin when nutrients ...

A treatment that could protect premature babies from brain damage showed promise in a recent study in Sweden. Using a ...

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

In a recent medical study, Stanford researchers say a new stem cell experiment is transforming the lives of stroke patients. The use of stem cells is allowing patients with little hope for recovery to ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a pioneering method to mend damaged hearts without open-heart surgery, an advance that ...

Test: Researcher Maedeh Mozneb readies experiments for space launch. Beverly Grove-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is in the midst of its first-ever attempt to fully produce stem cells in space and ...

DEAR READERS: In yesterday’s column I said that, theoretically, embryonic stem cells could be used to replace cells that are killed by disease — heart cells killed in a heart attack, for example, or ...

Scientists agree on one point: Public must be involved in debate over whether to proceed. A group of American and Canadian biologists is debating whether to recommend conducting stem cell experiments ...