Scientists have discovered that neural stem cells (NSCs) receive constant feedback from their daughter cells, influencing whether they remain dormant or activate to form new neurons and glia.

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a common and severe complication that occurs after stem cell transplantation, where the ...

Extraembryonic trophoblast lineages constitute the placenta, and are essential for individual development. In human early embryo development, these cells can be generated from totipotent blastomeres.

The novel drug CT-179 ... How Healthy Stem Cells Turn Into Oral Cancer Feb. 4, 2025 — Researchers have identified the molecular and cellular mechanisms that transform healthy stem cells into ...

Changes to the intermediate filament (IF) protein, vimentin, were found to promote tumor growth by increasing cancer stemness in an oestrogen independent manner. Targeting vimentin and/or the long ...

More than 13 years after its initial FDA approval, Pfizer’s blood cancer drug Adcetris has nabbed another regulatory green ...

When Heather was considering a facelift 10 years ago, she knew she wanted something natural. She didn’t want the typical ...

A University of Ottawa neuroscientist has led a Canadian research team to reveal important new insights into the activation ...

Stem-cell differentiation is the process by which a more specialised cell is formed from a stem cell, leading to loss of some of the stem cell's developmental potential. Stem-cell differentiation ...

Xylem cell They transport water and minerals up the stem to leaves and flowers. Dead cells are joined end to end to form a continuous tube. They have no cytoplasm. Their walls contain lignin for ...

What if you could make a baby without extracting an egg and sperm in a petri dish? Imagine a scenario where a doctor uses stem cells, collected from your skin, hair strand or blood and converts them ...