Scientists said on Monday they had taken a first step towards being able to control stem cells -- master cells that have the ability to become any kind of cell in the body. Doctors hope one day these ...

Often described as ‘miracle’ cells, stem cells need to be truly mastered if we’re to use them in medical treatments.

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Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature ...

The scientific first advances efforts to generate replacement tissues for sick patients The race is on to see whether induced or cloned stem cells can most safely be grown into tissue An international ...

Engineered human stomach organoids, transplanted into mice, produced insulin-secreting cells, offering a potential new ...

Two weeks after the US Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion, Ye Yuan heard from a woman who wanted to reverse her decision to donate her embryos to scientific research. The ...

The decision to end many restrictions on embryonic stem cell research has removed a key barrier to research and discovery. Scientists are driven by the desire to succeed as fervently as our most ...