When stem cells go bad
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Stem cells, which are believed to hold great medical promise, also play a lead role in fuelling the formation and growth of brain tumours.
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Researchers at Merck can use neural stem-cell tech in early stages of drug development. Plus: Pay for eggs OK in Britain. In Bodyhack.
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Scientists turn embryonic stem cells into retinal cells for the first time. The groundbreaking work could be tested to treat human blindness in two years if all goes well. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Scientists say they have created a stem cell line from a human embryo that had stopped developing naturally, and so was considered dead. Using such embryos might ease ethical concerns about creating such cells, they suggested.
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Science & environment: British scientists have been given the go-ahead to begin potentially ground-breaking experiments using injections of stem cells to repair patients' damaged hearts
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By KATHARINE WEBSTER     MANCHESTER, N.H.  -- A Nobel laureate in medicine says the Bush administration's limits on funding for embryonic stem cell research have stopped the clock on American scientists' efforts to develop treatments for a host of chronic, debilitating diseases...
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Nov. 29, 2004 -- A new treatment that uses a person&#39;s own stem cells to strengthen the bladder may one day cure incontinence. Stress urinary incontinence is a common problem that affects more than 15 million people worldwide.
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Using a patientâs own stem cells to rebuild feeble bladder-control muscles may provide lasting relief from the embarrassing and inconvenient symptoms of urinary incontinence, a new study reveals.
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute are one step closer to understanding how blood cells develop through the use of human embryonic stem cells.
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Your overbearing boss didn&#39;t turn your hair gray. Neither did your unruly teenage kids. Turns out, your hair follicles simply ran out of stem cells, according to researchers
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Bone marrow-derived side population stem cells appear to have limited potential for regenerating injured cardiac and skeletal muscle, says a University of Chicago study in the Dec.
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For 16 years, a Columbia biotechnology company has been developing a drug, consisting of adult stem cells derived from healthy bone marrow samples, to treat severe inflammatory diseases that can destroy the body's organs.
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Mother India gives birth to 43 million children a year. Biotech companies on the verge of the world's largest stem-cell bonanza may create a market that would tempt poor families. By Scott Carney.
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A U.S. study suggests low levels of toxic substances cause critical stem cells in the central nervous system to prematurely stop functioning.
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Christopher Reeve&#39;s death is hitting many people hard, especially those involved in the stem cell research debate. After Reeve was paralyzed in 1995, he became an advocate for embryonic stem cell research.
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Experiments with the brain cells of rats show that contact with an ingredient found in shampoos, hand lotions and paint causes neurons to die.
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Newborn babies with brain damage could one day be treated by stem cell therapy using cells taken from their bone marrow, scientists say.