For the first time, researchers have discovered and isolated adult stem cells from a non-human primate. This finding could ...

In a remarkable—if likely controversial—feat, scientists announced today that they have created the first successful human-animal hybrids. The project proves that human cells can be introduced ...

The anthrobots, each between 30 and 500 micrometers across and capable of surviving for up to two months, are made from cells taken from adult human lung tissue.

A newly identified genetic factor allows adult skin to repair itself like the skin of a newborn. The discovery has implications for wound treatment and preventing some of the aging process in skin.

In the U.S., a 1996 amendment that bars federal funding for human embryo experiments defines a human embryo as an organism derived by fertilization, cloning, parthenogenesis — when an ...

A new study conducted by Brazilian researchers found that Zika virus infects and replicates in adult human brain tissue. Scientists also found that infection causes long-lasting learning and ...

Adult stem cells in humans have been used to treat diseases like leukaemia close leukaemia A cancer of the white blood cells. and other cancers of the blood and bone marrow by transplants ...

The average adult male has around 36 trillion cells in their body, while average adult females have 28 trillion, researchers have found. Unexpectedly, the mass of small cells in our bodies, such ...

Adult stem cells only grow in specific parts of the body including: bone marrow close bone marrow The spongy tissue found in the centre of the largest bones., breasts, intestines, fat tissue ...