Stem cells are those cells that haven't been "switched on" yet and have the potential to become almost any kind of tissue, reports CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales. Dr.

Fat tissue has a lot of blood vessels, making it a prime source of stem cells, and Alt recognized that stem cells derived from adipose tissue are also particularly good at becoming cartilage and bone.

Scientists find potential breakthrough for androgenetic alopecia using adipose-derived stem cells with ATP molecules, showing ...

Fat Can Be - Stem Cell Source! October 2, 2004 / 1:34 PM EDT / AP Dr. Robert Ersek, a 66-year-old plastic surgeon, invited reporters to his Texas operating room recently and, ...

Liposuction may yield more than just a leaner figure – it can potentially produce stem cells for tissue reconstruction. Researchers from the University of Oklahoma, in Norman, Okla., have ...

Dr. Robert Ersek, a 66-year-old plastic surgeon, invited reporters to his Texas operating room recently and, in front of their cameras, proceeded to liposuction himself. After numbing the skin ...

Stem cells, which until now only came from bone marrow, brain tissue, or fetal tissue, are believed by many scientists to be the greatest hope for curing many degenerative illnesses, such as ...

Stem cells not exposed to BMP4 didn't become fat cells when pushed with a"cocktail" of differentiation-inducers that the researchers had previously shown makes "pre-fat" cells convert into fat cells.

Researchers have identified stem cells with the capacity to build fat, according to a report in the October 17th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.

Dr. Patel: The biggest challenge with brown fat stem cell is that there's so few of them so how do you safely grow them in a large enough, make billions of these so we can study them better and ...

Stem cells not exposed to BMP4 didn't become fat cells when pushed with a"cocktail" of differentiation-inducers that the researchers had previously shown makes "pre-fat" cells convert into fat ...

Researchers have identified stem cells with the capacity to build fat, according to a report in the October 17th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. Although they have yet to show ...