Every year, around 15 million babies worldwide are born before 37 weeks of gestation. Being born preterm can disrupt development, and earlier births increase the risk of life-changing health outcomes.

King's College London researchers have created a unique collection of human stem cell models that could help to uncover why ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive form of blood cancer. It affects people of all ages but is most common in those over 65. Around 150 people are diagnosed with the disease each year in ...

“For many cell-based therapies, progress comes from connecting the right pieces at the right moment,” Klein said. “When ...

From axolotls to zebrafish, stem cells possess remarkable regenerative abilities, enabling them to restore lost limbs and repair damaged organs. These extraordinary capabilities, however, are not ...

Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what ...

A new stem cell treatment could offer hope for people living with Parkinson’s - More than 1 million Americans live with the ...

A type of flatworms, called planarians, can regenerate whole organisms from pieces as small as one-279th of their body. 1 Depending on how these goofy-looking worms were cut, they could even come back ...

Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is an aggressive form of blood cancer. It affects people of all ages but is most common in ...

A woman has undergone a stem-cell therapy made from her own cells, to treat her type 1 diabetes. Researchers in China discovered the woman did not need to use insulin 75 days after the procedure, and ...