Recent scientific breakthroughs, celebrity patient advocates, and conflicting religious beliefs have come together to bring the state of stem cell research—specifically embryonic stem cell ...

Stem Cells is a recently published brief overview of issues considered relevant to this topic. It is authored by a Committee on the Biological and Biomedical Applications of Stem Cell Research ...

By contrast, the biological discoveries of stem cells and of their clinical application to the heart have occurred almost simultaneously. Indeed, in some respects clinical research is the area of ...

Scientists used genes from unicellular protists to reprogram mouse cells into stem cells. These cells developed into a living ...

Students will study stem cell biology and stem cell research applications in medicine. They will also learn about the ethical and moral considerations of stem cell research and treatment. Stem cell ...

Stem cell therapies provide hope for patients with heart disease, blindness, Parkinson's, HIV, diabetes and spinal cord ...

We are also interested in applications outside the CNS — particularly in musculoskeletal disease and disorders related to cell types derived from the neural crest and sensory placodes. Understanding ...

Although stem cells hold great potential for the treatment of many injuries and degenerative diseases, several obstacles must be overcome before their therapeutic application can be realized.

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have brought a mouse to life with the help of a single-celled organism that ...

Our laboratory aims at exploiting recent advances in stem cell biology to develop radically new therapies for degenerative disease and cancer. The main focus in the lab is on the biology and ...

Stem cell therapy is revolutionizing medicine, offering transformative solutions for previously untreatable diseases. With ...