Researchers discovered a new type of stem cell that may explain why stubborn belly fat becomes more common with age—and why ...

For most of medicine’s history, blood has been treated as a delivery system that carries oxygen, nutrients and waste. Two new ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to grow specialized blood vessel ...

Two proteins with opposing functions orchestrate the development and maintenance of healthy skin, Stanford Medicine ...

According to the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), more than 8,000 people signed up to join the donor registry after ...

For many patients who survive a heart attack, recovery is only the beginning. Structural and functional changes in the heart ...

On a YouTube livestream, Berkeley City College students carefully study the movements of stem cells to observe what they do ...

A man and a woman with a rare and devastating autoimmune disease have been in remission for more than 15 years after ...

A new stem-cell-inspired technique allows scientists to grow vast numbers of immune-cell progenitors that can be engineered ...

For millennia, thick, healthy hair has symbolized both masculine virility and feminine appeal. So when hair thins or disappears altogether—which happens to approximately 80 percent of men and 50 ...

Science succeeds by failure, just as surely as it works by success. We slowly come to know how the physical world works by learning that what we thought was true is all wrong. Science teaches us to ...