A man who battled childhood cancer has received the first known transplant of sperm-producing stem cells, in a study aimed at ...

At Lane Tech High School on the city’s north side, the future is now. Students are working toward their futures and one young ...

A mum whose friend's death from leukaemia prompted her to bank stem cells from her newborn's umbilical cord has described it as a "back-up" which has brought her reassurance. Natalie Harrop, 40, from ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are tracking a rise in injuries tied to the misuse of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, including some brands that are sold in small canisters containing ...

What Is Cord Blood Banking? Cord blood banking is a process of collecting potentially life-saving stem cells from the umbilical cord and placenta and storing them for future use. Stem cells are ...

Surgeons restored corneal surfaces in the injured eyes of 14 patients in a small clinical trial. Stem cells from each patient’s healthy eye were cultivated in a lab to grow healthy tissue that could ...

A recently launched Phase 1 clinical trial is examining the safety and feasibility of a groundbreaking treatment approach for Parkinson's disease in which a patient's stem cells are reprogrammed ...

But I love a clean house, so when I do break out the vacuum cleaner, I get a bit of a thrill hearing all that dirt getting whisked up rat-a-tat-tat into the vacuum canister. Until it comes time to ...

Additionally, the researchers found that while humans rely on a pool of 20,000 to 200,000 stem cells for blood production, mice have a surprisingly large number too—about 70,000 blood stem cells ...