So, while he may still be cutting skin when doing a facelift, there’s a fat transfer involved, too, making the modern facelift not all too dissimilar from a stem cell facelift. “It’s rare ...

We called Dr. Ourian. He explained that it’s a series of injections—using a patient’s own stem cells—that are designed to lift certain areas of the face. “The term is derived from the ut ...

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...

skin cells, liver cells, or heart-muscle cells, for instance. Stem cells, however, are essentially a blank canvas that can develop into any type of cell. This in turn gives them vast life-saving ...

Skin stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells present in the adult skin, which can self-renew and differentiate into different cell lineages of the skin. Skin stem cells are active during skin ...

Now, Karl Koehler at Boston Children’s Hospital, United States, and his colleagues, have managed to generate skin organoids by directing the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells in a ...

A new process for converting skin cells to neurons directly could make it easier to develop therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.

US President-elect Barack Obama is already considering a lift on the current restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, according to a member of Obama's transition team. Yesterday, John Podesta, ...

A stem cell transplant can be a good treatment for multiple myeloma. A successful transplant gives someone with multiple myeloma new, healthy bone marrow. It replaces the bone marrow harmed by myeloma ...