401 Results From "stem cell research"

For the first time ever, an international team of scientists have created chimera embryos that are made up of both human and monkey cells, as NPR reports.
Science & Energy

For First Time Ever, Scientists Create Part-Human, Part-Monkey Embryos

Scientists from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have managed to regrow bone by firing high-frequency sound waves at stem cells.
Developments

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Grow New Bone Using Sound Waves

Scientists study the immortal jellyfish to learn about its DNA reproduction, life cycle and telomeres. New research reveals its special genes.
Future Society

Scientists Say They Found the Genes That Makes Immortal Jellyfish Immortal

Stanford University is circling the wagons around its president after student journalists uncovered serious allegations of scientific misconduct.
Developments

Student Journalists Expose Claims of Scientific Misconduct Against Stanford’s President

Using gene modification techniques, a team of researchers have come up with a new promising way to treat balding, a condition experienced by millions.
Developments

Scientists Are Working on a Gene-Hacking Drug That Could Treat Baldness

China has officially approved its latest COVID-19 vaccine, its fifth to be exact. And it has one special ingredient: ovary cells from hamsters.
Developments

China Approves COVID Vaccine Made From Hamster Cells

Psychedelics like LSD may improve brain function, including boosting learning and memory. It also improves mental health and brain injury.
Neuroscience and Brain

Evidence Is Growing That LSD Improves Learning and Memory

A new human stem cell derived from fat cells seems to be capable of adapting to and repairing damage in many parts of the body.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Reprogram Fat Cells to Repair Injuries

First Woman Reportedly Cured of HIV
Health & Medicine

First Woman Reportedly Cured of HIV

Astronauts who flew to the Interational Space Station with private space flight company Axiom were so busy during the mission it disrupted work for NASA.
Off-World

Whiny Space Tourists Say They Were Too Busy on the Space Station

A team of researchers have made a surprising discovery that could redefine how we understand aging, potentially paving new ways to prevent balding.
Gene Editing

New Genetic Discovery Could Finally Explain Balding

Researchers in Iceland are growing growing over 100,000 barley plants for a very unusual goal: growing lab-grown meat, the BBC reports.
Science & Energy

Scientists Genetically Modify Plants to Grow Meat Protein

Frogs have regrown limbs from an experimental drug cocktail — and in the near-ish future, humans may be able to do so, too. 
Medical

Scientist Predicts Humans Will Be Able to Regrow Limbs “Within Our Lifetime”

Scientists at Osaka University in Japan have managed to print lab-grown steak that greatly resembles products made from Wagyu cattle.
3D Printing

Japanese Scientists 3D Print Lab-Grown Wagyu Steak

Earlier this month, scientists announced that they'd successfully embedded human stem cells into monkey embryos. Now bioethicists have some concerns.
Developments

Scientists Alarmed by Lab-Grown Human-Animal Hybrids

A gene-hacking serum nullified two genes linked to heart health in monkeys. If it works in humans, it could mean a future with no heart disease.
Gene Editing

A Shot of This Gene Editing Serum Appears to Prevent Heart Disease in Monkeys

New research shows that CRISPR gene-editing tools cause unintended changes to DNA in a shockingly-high number of experiments.
DNA

CRISPR Has a Problem: It Mangles DNA It Wasn’t Supposed to Touch

A team of Japanese scientists cultured stem cells into hair follicles that can naturally grow back lost hair after it falls out.
Treatments

These Lab-Grown Follicles Could Offer New Treatment for Baldness

Researchers grew a working tear gland in the lab that they say can help them study disease and perhaps someday might be used as a transplant.
Developments

Lab Grows Human Tear Glands That Can Actually Cry

Scientists discovered that an ancient skull belonged to a new species in the Homo genus that's even closer related to us than Neanderthals.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say Ancient Skull Belonged to “Dragon Man” Related to Modern Humans