April 22, 2023 Secrets of gray hair revealed: Scientists may have figured out why our hair does this A study published in the journal Nature reveals that a certain type of stem cell gets "stuck" in our hair follicles — potentially causing gray hair and leading to a loss of hair color.
March 17, 2023 Scientists create mice with cells from 2 males for first time By turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab, scientists have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time. About 1% of the mouse embryos grew into pups.
January 18, 2019 Alaska woman with MS says stem-cell treatment has left her ‘practically symptom-free’ An Anchorage, Alaska, woman who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) more than a 10 years ago says an experimental stem-cell treatment has left her “practically symptom-free.”
May 8, 2018 Duped patients crowdfund for bogus medical care, study says They're the tech-age version of donor jars at the diner: crowdfunding websites that aim to link ailing people with strangers willing to help pay for medical treatment.
March 28, 2018 Surgeons amazed after removing over 2,000 gallstones from woman Doctors are amazed after removing 2,350 stones from a woman's gallbladder.
September 26, 2017 Dozens of US clinics sell unproven stem cell therapies for heart failure Stem cell therapy isn't approved to treat heart failure in the U.S., but dozens of clinics nationwide advertise the treatments anyway, often charging thousands of dollars for procedures that may not be safe or effective, a new study suggests.
May 2, 2017 Dr. Manny: Is the Nobel Prize's reputation in danger? If you’ve been following the story of stem cell surgeon Dr. Paolo Macchiarini and the scandal unfolding at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, you are right to question the ethics of medical award competitions and what exactly constitutes a medical breakthrough.
February 12, 2017 Can banking baby teeth treat diabetes? When she was just 11 months old, Billie Sue Wozniak’s daughter Juno was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease that affects 1.25 million people and approximately 200,000 children under age 20 in the United States.
January 6, 2017 Hope for new treatments after scientists successfully grow stomach tissue in petri dish With a goal to better study how organs form during embryonic development, researchers have successfully used stem cells to generate human stomach tissues in a petri dish that produce acid and digestive enzymes.
December 20, 2016 Testing stem cells in tiniest hearts to fight birth defect The 4-month-old on the operating table has a shocking birth defect, nearly half his heart too small or even missing.
