For the first time, Wisconsin researchers have taken skin from patients and, using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology, turned them into a laboratory model for an inherited type of macular degeneration. Dr. David Gamm, director of the UW's McPherson Eye Research Institute, said that whi...

Men who lose the ability to produce sperm after chemotherapy might one day be able to regain their fertility. That's because, for the first time, infertility has been reversed in a male primate using an injection of stem cells. Cancer drugs often work by destroying rapidly dividing cells, as these ...

The University of Tokyo fired researcher Hisashi Moriguchi on Friday over his bogus claim that he conducted the world's first clinical trial using a trailblazing stem cell technology, it said. While Moriguchi, 48, earlier claimed that six people with serious heart failure were treated using induced...

A new method of using adult stem cells as a model for the hereditary condition Gaucher disease could help accelerate the discovery of new, more effective therapies for this and other conditions such as Parkinson's, according to new research from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Scient...

It is rumoured that the late Kim Jong-il would inject himself with blood from healthy young virgins in a bid to slow the ageing process. Remarkably, the North Korean dictator might have been onto something. Experiments on mice have shown that it is possible to rejuvenate the brains of old animals ...