The 25-year-old woman is still making her own insulin a year after having gotten a transplant of her modified stem cells, scientists say. Reading time 2 minutes We might someday be able to have ...

Stem cell therapy offers a minimally invasive alternative to joint replacement surgery, with recovery times of just one to two weeks compared to months for major surgery Clinical studies show varying ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A discovery, several years in the making, by a University at Buffalo research team has proven that adult skin cells can be converted into neural crest cells (a type of stem cell) ...

Cells contain a blueprint in the form of DNA that dictates what they can make. This blueprint is converted into a message, or mRNA, which is then converted into protein. Although DNA remains the same ...

Stem cells are unspecialized cells with two distinct characteristics: unlimited self-renewal capacity; and the ability to differentiate into many types of tissue or organ-specific specialized cells.

A discovery, several years in the making, by a University at Buffalo research team has proven that adult skin cells can be converted into neural crest cells (a type of stem cell) without any genetic ...

This Brush Up is sponsored by Cayman Chemical. Learn more about chemical inhibitors of histone modification. Histone modification affects how tightly DNA wraps around histone proteins, yielding ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A unique property of the mammalian embryo is that stem cells can be derived from its early tissue lineages. These lineages will give rise to ...