Researchers from MIT have found that fasting for just 24 hours is enough to improve the regeneration of a person’s intestinal stem cells, which naturally declines with age. Better yet, with the metabolic switch identified, in the future the effect could be mimicked with a drug.
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Researchers from the Netherlands have managed to grow model mouse embryos by combining stem cells. The technique can help us better understand the early days of life, and may lead to more effective ways to treat infertility or genetic diseases.
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A study has found that a dose of human stem cells administered to rats bred to be high alcohol drinkers significantly reduced their voluntary alcohol intake. The research bolsters the growing hypothesis that stem cell treatments may be effective therapies to battle a variety of addiction disorders.
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If you wind back the clock on the different cells in our bodies, they’d all start life as one of just a few types of stem cells. Now, researchers have wound back the clock even further, and discovered a new type of dual stem cell that can produce certain tissues with built-in blood vessels.
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Researchers have developed a new stem-cell-based treatment for strokes. When tested in animal models, the technique was found to reduce brain damage and help the brain heal itself faster, and the results have been promising enough that clinical human trials may follow as soon as next year.
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An study from has found that mice injected with induced pluripotent stem cells display immune system responses to a variety of cancers. If replicated in humans this could pave the way for a personalized cancer treatment that essentially vaccinates patients against many types of tumors.
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For the first time, scientists have successfully grown functioning human kidney tissue in the lab that is able to produce urine. The kidney tissue, generated from human stem cells, was implanted under the skin of mice and went on to develop into working kidney cells.
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There are plenty of people around the world waiting for an effective treatment for baldness and researchers from Yokohama National University have given them new hope by growing up to 5,000 hair follicle germs (HFGs) in the lab, which is the largest scale to date.
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In 2015, a Duke University team made a world-first breakthrough, growing functioning human muscle tissue in a lab using cells from muscle biopsies called myogenic precursors. Now the research has leapt forward with working muscle being successfully grown from scratch using pluripotent stem cells.
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For decades we have known that alcohol consumption increases a person’s risk of developing cancer, but how this actually occurs has never been completely understood. Now a team has demonstrated how alcohol permanently damages DNA in stem cells which subsequently increases cancer risks
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