Two papers published in The New England Journal of Medicine highlight the potential of gene editing for treatment of sickle ...

Cancer incidence rises sharply with age, yet the biological mechanisms that make older patients more vulnerable to treatment failure remain poorly ...

Cancer cells can disarm the immune system not just by hiding from it, but by actively reprogramming nearby immune cells into a suppressed state. This previously unrecognized molecular interaction, ...

Researchers at Hannover Medical School have developed a benchtop bioreactor system that can generate up to 40 million human macrophages per week from induced pluripotent stem cells. The medium-scale ...

Twenty-three anti-abortion members of Congress are demanding the NIH stop human embryonic stem cell research, reviving a ...

Japan has granted conditional approval to a stem cell therapy that showed early success in improving movement in Parkinson’s patients, marking a milestone after decades of research setbacks. The ...

A clinical trial to reverse age-related vision conditions using stem cell treatment could finally deliver on the promise of a ...

Researchers at Hannover Medical School (MHH) have developed a method for the efficient production of human immune cells, such ...

Lab-grown dopamine cells show early success in Parkinson’s patients, improving movement and offering a new treatment path.

Paterna Biosciences says it has determined the set of instructions needed to turn sperm-making stem cells into "normal, ...

From billionaire-backed biotech to promising animal studies, this early trial will test whether partial reprogramming can ...

A Survival God for the Age of Abundance,” Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler explore what it means to be human in a world ...