Scientists target senescent "zombie cells" with new drugs called senolytics, which may slow aging and prevent diseases like ...

One of the most amazing things to happen in biology in the last couple of years is cellular reprogramming. We learned how to ...

Only a few universities nationwide, including the University of Southern California and Harvard, offer courses that allow ...

Can reprogramming our genes make us young again? A breakthrough in longevity research may be nearing its first human trials.

Feb. 4, 2025 — Research has shown that a potential new targeted therapy for childhood brain cancer is effective in infiltrating and killing tumor cells in ... How Healthy Stem Cells Turn Into ...

For the first time, researchers developed stem cell-derived pig retinal cells in comparison with human retinal cells, ...

In 2005, the National Academies released the book, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of ...

Saha, K. & Jaenisch, R. Technical challenges in using human induced pluripotent stem cells to model disease. Cell Stem Cell 5, 584–595 (2009). Takahashi, K. & Yamanaka, S. Induction of ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified genetic changes in blood stem cells from frequent blood donors ...

Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord injuries ...