The Latest Breaking News from Stem Cells

World first clinical test could be good news for people with rare blood groups and those who need frequent transfusions

These red blood cells would mean people who require regular long-term blood transfusions could need fewer transfusions in the future.

Stem cells are the starting point for all other cells in our bodies. The first such cells to be found were blood stem cells – as the name suggests, they give rise to different types of blood cells.

Brave Aubrey Austin, four, donated her own stem cells and saved her baby brother Carey's life on the day he turned one, after he was diagnosed with a rare type of blood cancer aged just eight months

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Spectrum Pharmaceuticals’ (NASDAQ:SPPI) lead asset ROLVEDON (eflapegrastim-xnst) injection to decrease the incidence of infection, as manifested by febrile neutropenia. Spectrum Pharmaceuticals shares traded as high as 3.17 percent, in a range of $1.21 to $1.30 on day volume of 6.8 million…

The dangers of smoking are well documented, but there's another far more stealthy way we could be harming ourselves - and it's one that many of us indulge in ...

Space is a hostile, extreme environment. It’s only a matter of time before ordinary people are exposed to this environment, either by engaging in space tourism or by joining self-sustaining colonies far away from Earth.

A ‘synthetic’ embryo with a brain and beating heart has been created by British scientists.

The results could be used to guide repair and development of synthetic, or artificial, human organs for transplantation, experts suggest.