A man who battled childhood cancer has received the first known transplant of sperm-producing stem cells, in a study aimed at restoring the fertility of cancer's youngest survivors. Jaiwen Hsu was 11 ...

“The approach, at first glance, seems simplistic and naive,” cancer researcher Robert Weinberg of MIT ... New methods for deriving macrophages from induced pluripotent stem cells are easier to scale ...

Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers report. The aptamers -- short ...

We draw from fundamental mechanisms of cell and ... proper chromosome segregation and is often deregulated in cancer. Joan Massagué, PhD Joan Massagué studies the control of stem cell growth and ...

Outside of colon cancer, the methylation process may also have implications for resistance to chemotherapy and radiation, Dempsey says. "When the cells switch into this regenerative stem cell ...