There are two major properties of a stem cell: potency and self-renewal. By potency, we mean a cell’s ability to give rise to specialized cells. Some stem cells are more potent than others, but at the ...

Imagine if our bodies could grow new organs throughout our entire lives. Plants do this constantly, thanks to tiny, powerful ...

Aging is inevitable for most cell types in the human body, but hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) seem to defy the process. They retain their self-renewing ability almost throughout an organism’s ...

During events to find a blood stem cell donor for Eddie Kaufman, volunteers had their cheeks swabbed. One of those volunteers ...

With a Kobe University-developed procedure, induced pluripotent stem cells can now be frozen directly in their dishes without ...

Stem cells in the brain, called neural stem cells (NSCs), have the ability to proliferate, differentiate, and undergo a process of cell death. Most of the NSCs in our brains exist in a dormant state, ...

Kylie Jenner is the latest A-lister hopping on the stem cell therapy bandwagon. The 28-year-old mom of two revealed that she recently underwent the procedure in the hopes of easing the “bad chronic ...

Self-renewal, on the other hand, refers to the ability of the stem cell to regenerate itself. All of us walk around with stem cells that repopulate our blood and our muscle tissue and our skin tissue.