The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine received a mixture of praise and hard-to-enact recommendations from an august scientific body today. Last summer, CIRM asked the Institute of Medicine to gather a group of experts to assess the stem-cell institute’s performance, which has distribu...

Ten drug companies and 23 universities are banding together to create one of the world's largest repositories of adult stem cells, which they aim to use to develop new drugs for difficult-to-treat diseases such as dementia and diabetes. Roche Holding AG and Oxford University are leading the €56...

Engineers at the University of Sheffield have developed a new technique for delivering stem cell therapy to the eye which they hope will help the natural repair of eyes damaged by accident or disease. This could help millions of people across the world retain -- or even regain -- their sight. In re...

A patient's own blood has been used to make personalised stem cells, which doctors hope will eventually be used to treat a range of diseases. The team at the University of Cambridge says this could be one of the easiest and safest sources of stem cells. In a study, published in the journal Stem Ce...

A recent study from researchers at the University of Washington announced a major step forward in the treatment of genetic diseases and specifically in treating Down syndrome patients. Down syndrome occurs when there is an extra copy of chromosome 21 (hence its alternative name, Trisomy 21) in t...