Stem Cell Therapy for Cancer Treatment - As life expectancies increase and lifestyle diseases become more common, preserving stem cells offers valuable insurance against future health challenges.

Climate change is bleaching and killing off vast amounts of the world's coral due to rising sea temperatures. Dr. Benyamin Rosental of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and his colleagues have ...

After an allogeneic stem cell transplant, a recipient’s body faces a daunting task: rebuilding the person’s blood-forming and immune systems from the ground up from a relatively small number of “seed” ...

Blood cancers are a diverse group of diseases, also known as ‘hematological malignancies.’ This means the cancer usually arises in the bone marrow and lymphatics and spreads to impact the formation ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have identified a key molecule for establishing blood stem cells in their niche within the bone marrow. The findings, reported in the January ...

A combination blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely prevented or cured Type 1 diabetes in mice in a study by Stanford Medicine ...

For people living with multiple sclerosis (MS), the search for effective treatment options can feel like a never-ending journey. While disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) have improved outcomes for ...

Age-related macular (AMD) degeneration is a leading cause of vision impairment and blindness in the elderly population. In so-called wet AMD, new, abnormal blood vessels grow in the central part of ...

A man in his early 20s received a transplant of his own sperm-producing stem cells, which had been frozen since his childhood, in an attempt to regain fertility. Doctors are waiting to see if the ...