According to a team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Tongji University and collaborating institutions, weaning ...

Personalized therapies for diabetes, while showing promise in international studies, is met with healthy skepticism from ...

Japan’s health ministry has endorsed two stem-cell therapies derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, making them the first treatments of their kind to clear a national regulatory body ...

Japan has approved two stem cell-based therapies for treating Parkinson's disease and heart failure in a world first, through ...

A mature cell of one type can be turned into a mature cell of another type without the cell having to pass through an earlier stage of development. This is called direct reprogramming, a reliable but ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered that a group of cells located in the skin and other areas of the body, called neural crest stem cells, are the source of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American NEW YORK—Despite a cloud of regulatory ...

Researchers in Japan pioneered reprogrammed cells 20 years ago. Now the country has given the first-ever authorizations to manufacture and sell medical products based on the technology.

India, March 18 -- Stem cell therapies using induced pluripotent stem cells have received conditional approval in Japan for ...