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

Researchers have identified the molecular and cellular mechanisms that transform healthy stem cells into oral cancer at the earliest stages of the disease. Nearly 60,000 people are diagnosed with oral ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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