Girlâs skull repaired with her stem cells
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She was only five when she had a head injury that damaged her skull severely. There were multiple fractures on the skull which had become bare open at several places.
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An eight-year-old girl with a rare degenerative condition will have her Â£100,000 a year treatment funded by the NHS.
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In a breakthrough that doctors say gives hope to many women who've become infertile after cancer treatments, a woman who received an ovarian tissue transplant gives birth to a healthy baby girl.
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Stem cells have been used to save mice embryos from a lethal heart defect.
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Hannah Mollie Stimell, a 13-month-old girl, endured an arduous and complex treatment that her parents and doctors hoped would cure her of a fatal genetic disease.
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A young girl and her family find ways to handle the challenges of a rare genetic disorder.
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Stem cells from fat tissue have been used to help grow bone to repair the damaged skull of a 7-year-old German girl, according to a report in a German medical journal.
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Research into using stem cells to repair damaged nerves just got a big boost, with scientists pinpointing a protein key to controlling binocular vision -- visual depth perception -- in mammals.
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A woman who has been paralysed for almost 20 years has started to walk again after scientists injected stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood into her spine.
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A Chinese neurosurgeon arouses controversy for using cells from aborted foetuses to help cure patients affected by spinal and brain damage.
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Stem cells taken from the eye could help restore normal vision in people with sight problems, researchers say.
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SKULL BONE GROWN: In what could be the first time fat-derived stem cells were used to grow bone in a human, surgeons successfully repaired extensive damage to the skull of a 7-year-old girl in Germany.
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Science & environment: Hopes boosted by experiments showing that human embryonic stem cells could be turned into a variety of brain cells
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Scientists develop a method of routinely growing stem cells in conditions similar to the human body.
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A little girl just a week shy of her second birthday has become the youngest person in the United States ever to receive a "piggyback" heart transplant, a procedure that involved implanting a second heart into her tiny chest.
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A Belgian woman has given birth to the  first baby born after an ovarian tissue transplant, a medical  breakthrough that brings hope to young cancer patients whose  fertility may be damaged by treatment.
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A Haitian teen whose facial features were once grossly distorted by a massive growth has undergone her fourth reconstructive surgery.