Muscle stem cells can be made to produce a type of good fat in the body that helps burn energy, according to ground-breaking Canadian research that may one day lead to a treatment for obesity. Researchers at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute are the first to discover that adult muscle stem cel...

The first clinical trials of a revolutionary approach to treating multiple sclerosis with stem cells derived from the patient’s own skin could begin soon following research showing that it works well on laboratory mice, scientists said. A study has for the first time found that human skin cells c...

Artificial bone, created using stem cells and a new lightweight plastic, could soon be used to heal shattered limbs. Scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Southampton are developing the use of bone stem cells combined with a degradable rigid material that inserts into broken bones and enc...

Scientists at the Monell Center have identified the location and certain genetic characteristics of taste stem cells on the tongue. The findings will facilitate techniques to grow and manipulate new functional taste cells for both clinical and research purposes. "Cancer patients who have taste loss...

  In findings released in the Clinical Cancer Research journal, University of Manchester scientist Dr Rob Clarke, funded by leading medical research charity Breast Cancer Campaign, has proved for the first time that breast cancer stem cells taken directly from patients can be successfully targeted...