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

Experts discover how the hippocampus might grow new cells throughout life, even in old age. In a Nutshell A new study finds ...

Adult stem cells are undifferentiated cells found throughout the body that divide to replenish dying cells and regenerate damaged tissues. Also known as somatic stem cells, they can be found in ...

In a discovery that could reshape approaches to regenerative medicine and bone repair, researchers have found that human stem ...

Not only do neural progenitors persist in the adult brain, but many of these cells are in active stages of division.

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the ...

Scientists in Sweden led the study, published Thursday in Science. They found abundant signs of neural stem cells growing in ...

Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

Cell therapy, involving adult stem cells from bone marrow, has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in severe heart failure patients, according to a new study.

In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka, of Kyoto University, avoided that ethical controversy when he discovered that adult skin cells can be removed from the body and genetically reprogrammed to revert to a ...