It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle-age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates aging and slows down metabolism, increasing our risk for developing ...

One continuing challenge is the need to suppress transplant patients' immune systems to prevent their bodies from rejecting ...

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have discovered how adult stem cells retain their regenerative power.

The gallbladder plays an important role in digestion but hasn’t received much attention in medical research. However, that’s starting to change. With advances in stem cell technology, scientists can ...

I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know how that works and if there are already uses for cord blood.

A novel drug that produces a temporary coating in the small intestine could be a new strategy for weight loss—and an alternative to surgeries and GLP-1 drugs.

Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials, Suzhou Key Laboratory of Novel Semiconductor-Optoelectronics Materials and Devices, State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional ...

Jurkunas said the transplant involves taking a small biopsy from a healthy eye, extracting the stem cells in a lab, growing them to a sheet of cells that can "later be transplanted onto the ...

Researchers found this region is vital for intestinal regeneration after ... it is essential for activating stem/progenitor cells and restoring normal stem cells expressing the marker Lgr5 ...

Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, United States; Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, United ...

Stem-cell derived organoids provide the perfect mixture of cells to rebuild damaged intestines.