Your child's baby teeth could some day help provide a medical cure worth far more than what the tooth fairy pays. Three companies - BioEDEN of Austin, Texas; Provia Laboratories in Lexington, Mass.; ...

The findings have been published in Stem Cell Reports. Within three to four months, offspring from these frozen cells were born through natural mating. When examining the newborn mice, the research ...

Nearly 1,000 babies are born every year in the U.S. with a heart defect that is difficult to survive. Surgeons treat hypoplastic left heart syndrome with many surgeries, and now doctors want to know ...

A Japanese research team has demonstrated in rat experiments that stem cells from human primary tooth pulp may help treat chronic-phase cerebral palsy. "This is the first animal study to show that ...

Dear Doctors: I’m getting a lot of advice during my pregnancy. Some of it is useful, but there have been a few old wives’ tales mixed in. A friend says you’re supposed to save your children’s baby ...

An international team of experts in embryology and bioethics has published the first white paper on the use of embryonic ...

Stem cells should be the ideal treatment for fetuses with genetic disorders – their nascent immune systems could adopt the incoming cells seemingly without trouble. Yet these treatments have never ...

Stem cell therapy performed on babies in the womb could reverse brain abnormalities linked to a severe birth defect, experts have said. Spina bifida occurs when a baby’s spine fails to develop fully ...

Kyoto, Japan -- As space programs evolve and we continue to mistreat our own planet, human dreams of space tourism and planetary colonization seem increasingly common. However, features of spaceflight ...

After two decades in stem cell science through LifeCell, Founders Mayur Abhaya and Taru Mayur turned their attention to a ...

Cerebral palsy is a condition usually caused by brain damage before or during birth, resulting in impaired posture and movement. Early symptoms are typically subtle, which may delay diagnosis until ...