Specialized cells help to create a nurturing environment in which tumour-fighting immune cells can thrive and work to ...

A team of UC Davis Health researchers has shown that CD34+ stem cells can be safely administered into retinitis pigmentosa ...

Researchers recently collaborated on a novel, highly specific strategy to treat type 1 diabetes (T1D) using a tagged beta cell transplant in tandem with localized immune protection provided by ...

Effective immunity hinges on the ability to sense infection and cellular transformation. In humans, there is a specialized ...

Cancer is a disease in which mutated cells grow rapidly and uncontrollably. Unfortunately, these cells resist the body’s ...

Regenerative medicine holds the extraordinary promise that future patients in need of new cells, tissues or organs will no ...

During early development, stem cells start in a state called “pluripotency,” meaning they can potentially become any ...

Stem cells are specialized cells that have the potential to develop into not one but many different types of cell. They are unlike any other cell for three specific reasons: They are unspecialized, ...

Experience convenient blood cancer treatment close to home. Find out how this unique partnership brings autologous stem cell ...

The Wistar Institute's Alessandro Gardini, Ph.D., and lab have shed new light on how certain biological processes determine ...

A new method developed by Penn State biologists allows them to turn stripped-down plant cells into other types of cells, similar to the way stem cells differentiate into different cell types.