Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90% of the cells replaced daily are blood cells. These include red blood cells essential for oxygen transport, platelets ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

Zebrafish can regenerate sensory hair cells that humans permanently lose, like those in the inner ear linked to hearing and balance. New research reveals two specific genes that control how different ...

Texas A&M researchers found a way to make stem cells produce double the normal number of mitochondria using nanoflower ...

Every year, millions of lives are suddenly, swiftly transformed by a stroke, which occurs when a blood vessel traveling ...

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have uncovered how changes in metabolism of human embryonic stem cells help coax them to mature into specific cell types — ...

Stem cells sent to the ISS return with signs of accelerated aging, revealing key risks for future space travel.

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved stem cell therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, people could participate in clinical trials involving this ALS treatment.

As a stem cell transplant nurse, Julie Zgola understood the impact she could have on someone's life by donating her own stem ...

Neural circuits produce electrical patterns very early in the brain's development process, even before senses are active.