The UBC team's research, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, dubbed the highly-specialized neurons ...

At the Jaipur Literature Festival, Nobel chemistry laureate Venki Ramakrishnan advocates an integrated approach to knowledge ...

Abbie Inwood, 24, from Gomersal, West Yorkshire, has a rare condition called aplastic anaemia, which means her body can't produce new blood cells. She has been told a stem cell transplant is her ...

People attending a football match will be asked to sign up to a stem cell register in the hope of finding a donor for a local man. Marshall Davies, 21, from Telford, was diagnosed with a rare and ...

Asiawu Imam says the therapy will make a huge difference A gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease, with a price tag of £1.65m, is to be offered to patients on the NHS in England. About 50 ...

This team used a different approach, adding recombinase sites to transposons -- mobile genetic elements -- that randomly integrated in the genomes of human cell lines and mouse embryonic stem cells ..

This team used a different approach, adding recombinase sites to transposons—mobile genetic elements—that randomly integrated in the genomes of human cell lines and mouse embryonic stem cells.

A patch made from lab-grown muscle cells boosted heart function in monkeys with cardiovascular disease and is now being tested in humans ...

Researchers have shown that patches of muscle grown from stem cells can help to repair a failing heart, in a clinical trial that tested the procedure on a 46-year-old woman. The woman, who had a ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...

Maite Rodriguez and her husband gave their 6-year-old daughter with sickle cell disease a lifeline when they conceived a second child last year. Through IVF, they were able to guarantee their kids ...