Stem cells

MSC therapy is currently being investigated as a promising therapeutic approach for a number of incurable, degenerative lung diseases.

Examining why obese patients fare worse than leaner patients across many cancer types, a new study has found that cancer stem cells not only use fatty tissue as a robbers' cave to hide from therapy, ...

Cancer is often caused by the "bad luck" of random mutations that arise when cells divide, not family history or environmental causes.

Dutch vegetarian butcher takes on the 'FrankenburgerNever mind last month's revolutionary test-tube beef burger grown from meat stem cells. The Dutch are way ahead with a "vegetarian butcher" who transforms plants into "meat".Dubbed the "Frankenburger",...

The team was able to find how brain cells respond to good nutrition or the lack of it, which aimed at improving prenatal care in humans and may also help in current research in the ...

These "mini brains" offer insight into the processes with which individual nerve cells organise themselves into our highly complex tissues.

The scientists hinted at a new connection between the way cells consume fat and how genes regulate stem cell behaviour in the intestines of mice. The study was published in the journal Gastroenterology.

This stem cell therapy needs only a dime-size donor spot on the scalp: 50 to 100 hairs, as opposed to the bloody, painful 4- to 5-inch strips for a hair transplant.

A group of researchers, including one of Indian-origin have discovered that compounds found in purple potatoes may help kill colon cancer stem cells and limit the spread of the deadly disease.

Aplastic anaemia is a type of blood disorder in which the bone marrow does not produce enough new blood cells.