Researchers at Columbia Engineering have established a new method to patch a damaged heart using a tissue-engineering platform that enables heart tissue to repair itself. This breakthrough, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is an important step forward in com...

The first stage in creating an elite centre for developing cell therapies which could transform the lives of people with serious or chronic illnesses was announced by David Willetts Minister for Universities and Science today. Speaking at the World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress...

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...