In one of the first studies to look at the population behavior of a large pool of stem cells in thousands of hair follicles, scientists deciphered how hair stem cells in mice and rabbits can communicate with each other and encourage mutually coordinated regeneration.The team from the Keck School of ...

In a unique procedure involving stem cell therapy, a Kolkata cancer research institute claims to have cured a five-year-old boy of thalassemia, an inherited disease which affects the body's red blood corpuscles and leads to anaemia as a first symptom.Doctors at the Netaji Subhas Cancer Research Inst...

For the first time ever in the world, researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have produced a blood vessel from stem cells and then used it in an operation on a 10-year-old girl at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Surgeon and Professor Michael Olausson was...

Two lives changed because of a stem cell transplant. A 31-year old man helped extend a 7-year old boy's life with a stem cell transplant. They met for the first time on March 2011 with the presence of an awkward silence. Little did they know that they have changed each other's lives one way or anoth...

Many patients who undergo bone marrow or blood stem cell transplantation to treat blood cancers or a "pre-leukemic" condition called myelodysplasia experience a decline in mental and fine motor skills due to the toll of their disease and its treatment. A new study led by researchers at Fred Hutchin...