Totipotent Cells: Often regarded as the "holy grail" of stem cell biology, these cells can develop into any type of cell in the body, offering vast possibilities for tissue regeneration.

How do stem cells know what to become?Nearly three decades after scientists isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, researchers are still ...

Scientists have successfully created immature human egg-like cells from skin-derived stem cells, a significant step in ...

A large clinical trial shows stem cell therapy can help repair heart tissue and improve recovery in patients after a heart ...

Liver cells are indispensable for research—for drug testing, to better understand diseases such as hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, or liver cancer and for development of future cell therapies.

Scripps Research neuroscientist Giordano Lippi is the recipient of a $4 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to study haploinsufficiency, a condition where only ...

When malfunctions occur in the biological machinery our muscles or our brains use for renewal and repairs, these tissues ...

If cancer is a disease of overabundance, where cells divide without restraint and tumors grow despite the body's best interests, then degenerative diseases are disorders of deprivation. When ...

A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.

If cancer is a disease of overabundance, where cells divide without restraint and tumors grow despite the body's best interests, then degenerative ...