Stem Cells

Image of a person suffering from a cardiac illness.getty All organs in the body rely on the blood and oxygen…

The breakthrough launched a debate: What do we make now? One faction wanted to grow a face, but the faction that…

I wish I came to veganism through an epiphany about the right to personhood of animals, or recognition of the…

3d rendering red blood cells in veingetty Efforts to develop lab-grown blood cells for blood transfusions may soon…

Your gut has an obvious job: It processes the food you eat. But it has another important function: It protects you…

Thanks to new techniques in regenerative medicine we are now closer to a future where your own cells ... can be…

The recipe for mammalian life is simple: take an egg, add sperm and wait. But two new papers demonstrate that…

Pink Porcelain Anatomical Heart 3d illustration 3d render getty This story on artificial hearts…

Researcher Dhruv Sareen’s own stem cells are now orbiting the Earth. The mission? To test whether they’ll…

“It’s exciting that we could do it,” says Shlomchik.“This is an important first step,” agrees Nelson Chao, chief of…