13-05-22 When infections occur in the body, stem cells in the blood often jump into action by multiplying and differentiating into mature immune cells that can fight off illness. But repeated infections and inflammation can deplete（耗尽） these cell populat...

13-05-17 Scientists at Oregon Health Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) have successfully reprogrammed human skin cells to become embryonic stem cells capable of transforming into any other cell type in the body. It is...

13-05-08 Over 20 million people in Europe suffer from osteoarthritis（骨关节炎） which can lead to extensive damage to the knee and hip cartilage（软骨） . Stem cells offer a promising way forward but a key challenge has been to design a 'smart material' tha...

13-05-03 Scientists have made a fundamental discovery about how the properties of embryonic（胚胎的） stem cells are controlled. The study, which focuses on the process by which these cells renew and increase in number, could help research to find new treatm...

13-03-29 Like tiny, crawling compass needles, whole living cells and cell fragments orient and move in response to electric fields -- but in opposite directions, scientists at the University of California, Davis, have found. Their results, published April 8...

13-02-27 Scientists have used sugar-coated scaffolding to move a step closer to the routine use of stem cells in the clinic and unlock their huge potential to cure diseases from Alzheimer's to diabetes. Stem cells have the unique ability to turn into any typ...

13-01-23 New University at Buffalo research demonstrates how defects in an important neurological pathway in early development may be responsible for the onset of schizophrenia later in life. The UB findings, published in Schizophrenia Research, test the hyp...

12-06-21 A cutting-edge method developed at the University of Michigan Center for Arrhythmia Research successfully uses stem cells to create heart cells capable of mimicking the heart's crucial squeezing action. The cells displayed activity similar to most p...

12-01-18 For the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords（脐带） have been converted into other types of cells, which may eventually lead to new treatment options for spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis（多发性硬化） , among other nervous sy...

12-01-09 Newly published research by scientists at Oregon Health Science University provides significant new information about how early embryonic stem cells develop and take part in formation of the primate（灵长类动物） species. The research, which took pl...