Each year, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), millions of people in the U.S. are affected by spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, along with neuro-developmental and ...

Dr. Shahin Rafii, study senior author, director of the Hartman Institute for Therapeutic Organ Regeneration and the Ansary Stem Cell Institute, chief of the division of regenerative medicine, and the ...

Researchers successfully pulled off the first eye stem cell transplants to help heal cornea damage, and the results speak for ...

A single molecular switch is essential for blood stem cells to enter an activated, regenerative state in which they produce new blood cells, according to a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell ...

This regeneration capacity is mainly attributable to the Schwann cells of the peripheral nervous system. These cells are quick-change artists that can transform themselves into repair cells when ...

Effective strategies for retinal repair and regeneration in these cases are lacking in part because developmental programs required for cell differentiation and maturation are not fully understood.

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

A recent study has shed new light on the role of fibro-adipogenic progenitors (FAPs) in muscle regeneration, fibrosis, and degeneration. These cells play a crucial part in tissue homeostasis, and ...