CNN — (CNN) — Here is some background information about stem cells. Scientists believe that stem cell research can be used to treat medical conditions including Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury ...

Stem cells are gaining attention for their potential to treat leukemia, certain solid tumor cancers, and inherited metabolic ...

Researchers use single-cell analysis to show how transplanted neural stem cells interact with the retina to preserve vision in retinitis pigmentosa.

Scientists have discovered a key biological safeguard that helps one of nature's most impressive regenerators, the planarian ...

Stanford Medicine pediatric hematologist Agnieszka Czechowicz, MD, Ph.D., has devoted her research career to improving ...

This letter from Matthew B. Lovern of Stillwater, an incorrect Web site was printed. The site should be http://stemcells.nih.gov/. Jean Stiles (Letters, Aug. 11) has ...

The always-popular Teach-In lecture series returns to UC Santa Cruz’s Alumni Weekend this year, with button-pushing presentations about the role of the humanities in a “post-truth” world and the ...

The New York Stem Cell Foundation is expanding its operations in Manhattan, N.Y., according to The Wall Street Journal. 1. The 10-year-old nonprofit foundation has signed a 20-year lease for an ...

Michigan's Proposal 2 would loosen our excessively strict regulations on embryonic stem cell research, which are among the toughest in the nation. The regulations were imposed back in 1978 in a ...