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Scientists Successfully Slow Aging in Mice Using Stem Cells
The Key is in the Brain Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have successfully tested a new procedure on mice that could help keep age-related diseases, and even aging...
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Researchers Used CRISPR to Successfully Increase HIV Resistance in Animals
Engineering a Mutation Of the many diseases that have plagued humanity, HIV is proving to be one of the trickiest to cure. The virus’ ability to remain hidden in latent reservoirs makes eliminating it...
View ArticleScientists Move One Step Closer To “Curing” Diabetes Using First-Ever Stem...
No More Injections The World Health Organization reports that more than 422 million people worldwide are living with diabetes, a condition that can take two forms. In the first, the body’s immune...
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New Study Reveals Stem Cells from Young Hearts May Help Reverse the Aging...
To Be Young Again Old hearts may find new life, according to a new study, which shows that stem cells taken from younger hearts can be used to reverse the aging process. This could potentially cause...
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We Just Figured out How to Activate Stem Cells to Treat Baldness
External Problem. Internal Solution. Researchers have already explored ways to use stem cells to treat everything from diabetes to aging, and now, a team from UCLA thinks they could potentially offer...
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Scientists Have Officially Created Healthy Offspring from Genetically...
Extra Chromosomes Scientists have developed healthy offspring from altered male mice that were once genetically infertile, resulting in a new tool to manage human infertility. The X and Y chromosomes...
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Soon, Broken Bones Could be Fixed Using Gene Therapy and Microbubbles
Better Than Bone Grafts Fixing broken limb bones after serious injuries can challenge even the most skilled orthopedic surgeons. Too much bone loss makes regrowth impossible, and even smaller fractures...
View ArticleResearchers Turn Skin Cells into Motor Neurons Without Using Stem Cells
Cellular Renovation Why build something from the ground up when one can just renovate an already existing structure? Essentially, that’s what researchers from the University of Washington School of...
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An Organism That Regenerates Could Allow Us to Heal Humans
The gecko’s remarkable ability to regenerate its tail in the space of a month could help scientists figure out how to heal spine injuries in humans, and it’s all down to the regenerative ability of...
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The FDA Wants to Expedite Approval of Regenerative Organ Therapies
Organ Ordinance Scientists are making great strides toward more realistically using stem cells to grow replacement organs. Now, the US Food and Drug Administration is looking to fast-track a new...
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Artificial Organs: We’re Entering an Era Where Transplants Are Obsolete
No More Heart Transplants Around the world, lists of patients in need of an organ transplant are often longer than the lists of those willing (and able) to donate — in part because some of the most...
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Scientists Discover a Way to Prevent Stem Cell Loss and Improve Tissue...
Stem Cells and Aging The stem cells found within the average adult human are capable of restoring dying cells while also fixing damaged tissue. Nothing is safe from the aging process, though, and as we...
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Stem Cells Restore Mobility and Sensory Perception to Paralyzed Rats
Spine Repair Advancements in spine repair could be propelling us into a future where a severed spinal cord is a treatable condition. A team of researchers from Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology...
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Mature Cells May Play an Important Role in the Onset of Cancer
Reverting Back A new study has found that mature cells, as well as rapidly dividing stem cells, might play a role in the onset of cancer in the human body. A team of researchers from the Washington...
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Lab-Grown Skin With Hair Will Illuminate Treatments For Skin Conditions
Sprouting Hair Follicles For the first time ever, scientists have successfully grown hair follicles from cultures of stem cells. Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine developed the...
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Scientists Grow First-Ever Working Human Muscle From Stem Cells
Working Muscle In a world first, biomedical engineers from Duke University have created the first functioning human skeletal muscle from pluripotent stem cells, which are capable of producing any form...
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Reproductive Tech Will Let Future Humans Inhabit the Body They Truly Want
When Caleb Wilvich read about the first woman in the U.S. to have a baby via a uterine transplant in early December, they were stoked. Wilvich, who uses the pronoun “they,” has always wanted to give...
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Newly FDA-Approved Platform Will Rapidly “Manufacture” Stem Cells to Repair...
Stem Cells Fast Up until now, any patient receiving stem cells for a medical treatment has had to wait months for their doctors to create enough cells to make multiple doses. But that could soon...
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We Can Now Use Stem Cells to Grow Functioning Kidney Tissue
Medical Marvel In a remarkable medical first, research funded by The Medical Research Council and Kidney Research U.K. helped researchers create human kidney tissue inside of a living organism. The...
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New Stem Cell Study Could Be the Start of Personalized Cancer Vaccines
Preemptive Strike Each year, the world invests billions of dollars into cancer research, but because cancer cells multiply rapidly and without limit, developing effective treatments for the disease is...
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