Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...

More work needs to be done to create viable human embryos, but the method might someday be used in IVF to help infertile people and male couples.

Schmidtea mediterranea, a freshwater flatworm (or planarian), has adult pluripotent stem cells spread all throughout its ...

Biologists have long been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to regrow entire limbs. Now Harvard researchers have ...

Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, attacking harmful invaders while protecting your own tissues ...

Scientists have used an experimental approach to form human eggs in the lab that can then be fertilized ... and eggs carry half the chromosomes as nonreproductive cells in the body do. During ...

T cell therapy has emerged as a powerful new way to treat cancer. By extracting patients' T cells, re-engineering them to ...

The team used human stem cells to create embryo-like structures dubbed “hematoids” that mirror some features of early human ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that ...

Share on Pinterest Do all our cells have a type of memory, and if so, how might this influence health? We investigate. Design by MNT; Photography by Grant Faint/Getty Images & Ed Reschke/Getty Images.

Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today's therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but ...

Over 11,000 liver transplants were performed last year in the US, while thousands more patients remained in limbo.