The word “niche” implies a specialized environment. But to Fiona Doetsch, the stem cell niche is anything but. For brain stem cells, “the whole organism is the niche,” Doetsch told the audience at the ...

When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of cell in our bodies, promising revolutionary medical treatments. However, ...

CINCINNATI, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- In a groundbreaking proof-of-concept study, researchers at Cincinnati Children's report success at restoring healthy function to blood-making stem cells that ...

Senescence. It’s a beautiful-sounding word whose tones suggest it should be a perfume or an essential oil. But that’s not ...

For the first time, researchers at the University of British Columbia have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye-called the ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and AlveoliX have developed the first human 'lung-on-chip' model using stem cells taken from only one person.