When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...
Some perennials, though, are best cut back in fall. Hosta, iris and daylilies don’t have rigid stems, and quickly flatten ...
THOUGH THEY'RE CURRENTLY only approved to treat a small group of diseases, researchers are exploring a whole world of ...
Research roadblocks and political debates have delayed progress—but scientists are inching closer to delivering a cure. Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, researchers in Wisconsin isolated powerful stem ...
A stem cell transplant is when healthy stem cells are injected into a person’s bone marrow or blood. This can replenish stem cells when a person’s bone marrow has been damaged by chemotherapy, ...
From axolotls to zebrafish, stem cells possess remarkable regenerative abilities, enabling them to restore lost limbs and repair damaged organs. These extraordinary capabilities, however, are not ...
This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Roughly 20 years ago, a biologist named Caroline Gargett went in search of some remarkable cells in tissue that had been removed during ...