Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Stem Cells

World-first spina bifida surgery gives unborn babies a chance to walk

A baby girl is the first human in the world to receive experimental in-utero surgery to treat spina bifida.

The New Daily

Stem cells successfully treat spina bifida in lambs, puppies. Could babies be next?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Diagnosed before birth with a spinal defect, three babies have kicked their legs, wiggled their toes and blown away their parents and a team of researchers at UC Davis Health who developed a novel approach to treat them.

Tribune News Service

Scientists have created a mechanical womb that can grow life in the lab

In a cluster of new studies from recent years, researchers have been able to grow life from animal stem cells in a petri dish. But it isn't yet clear when (and if) they'll do the same for humans.

Inverse

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Scientists have mimicked an embryo's heart to unlock the secrets of how blood cells are born

Stem cells are the starting point for all other cells in our bodies. The first such cells to be found were blood stem cells – as the name suggests, they give rise to different types of blood cells.

The Conversation

Girl, four, saves baby brother's life by donating her stem cells on his 1st birthday

Brave Aubrey Austin, four, donated her own stem cells and saved her baby brother Carey's life on the day he turned one, after he was diagnosed with a rare type of blood cancer aged just eight months

Daily Mirror

Important Biotech Catalysts For September 9, 2022 - End Of The Day Summary

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Spectrum Pharmaceuticals’ (NASDAQ:SPPI) lead asset ROLVEDON (eflapegrastim-xnst) injection to decrease the incidence of infection, as manifested by febrile neutropenia. Spectrum Pharmaceuticals shares traded as high as 3.17 percent, in a range of $1.21 to $1.30 on day volume of 6.8 million…

Benzinga

Cancer warning: One of Britain’s most-loved drinks found to cause seven types of disease

The dangers of smoking are well documented, but there's another far more stealthy way we could be harming ourselves - and it's one that many of us indulge in ...

Daily Mirror

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Pregnancy in space: studying stem cells in zero gravity may determine whether it’s safe

Space is a hostile, extreme environment. It’s only a matter of time before ordinary people are exposed to this environment, either by engaging in space tourism or by joining self-sustaining colonies far away from Earth.

The Conversation

Lab Creates ‘Synthetic’ Mouse Embryo With Brain And Beating Heart

A ‘synthetic’ embryo with a brain and beating heart has been created by British scientists.

Zenger

Synthetic embryo with brain and beating heart grown from mouse cells for first time ever

The results could be used to guide repair and development of synthetic, or artificial, human organs for transplantation, experts suggest.

The Independent UK

Scientists use stem cells to create synthetic mouse embryos

Scientists have created synthetic mouse embryos from stem cells without a dad's sperm or a mom's egg and womb

The Independent UK

Synthetic embryo with brain and beating heart grown from mouse cells for first time ever

The results could be used to guide repair and development of synthetic, or artificial, human organs for transplantation, experts suggest

The Independent UK

Man hopes to use stem cells from newborn son to treat Crohn’s disease

Ryan Clarke, 29, from Doncaster wants to fly to Mexico or Switzerland for the treatment

The Independent UK

Scientists made synthetic embryos — and created an ethical dilemma

Opinion: A team of researchers created synthetic mouse embryos from stem cells that lived for 8 days in a bioreactor in a lab. Their achievement raises legal and ethical concerns.

Inverse

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Manchester Evening News

Brave dad refused to leave A&E without blood test - results show he has terminal cancer

“They basically told me there was nothing wrong with me. I wasn’t going to sit there for hours to be told nothing was wrong.”

The Conversation

First synthetic embryos: the scientific breakthrough raises serious ethical questions

Children, even some who are too young for school, know you can’t make a baby without sperm and an egg. But a team of researchers in Israel have called into question the basics of what we teach children about the birds and the bees, and created a mouse embryo using…

The Independent UK

Scientists find potential ‘cure’ for baldness

New research pins baldness to a single chemical

Reason

Researchers Create Artificial Eggs, Chimeric Sperm, and Synthetic Embryos

All of these advances are in mice for now, but maybe these breakthroughs can one day be adapted as human therapies.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Inverse

This breakthrough stem-cell therapy could reverse genetic blindness

Scientists have developed a new stem cell therapy that could treat certain forms of genetic blindness that have long evaded even cutting-edge methods. But this breakthrough will likely require immunosuppressive drugs to be effective.

The Conversation

World's first 'synthetic embryo': why this research is more important than you think

In what’s reported as a world-first achievement, biologists have grown mouse embryo models in the lab without the need for fertilised eggs, embryos, or even a mouse – using only stem cells and a special incubator.

Inverse

How muscle stem cells activate themselves to repair damaged tissue has boggled scientists. Now we know hyaluronic acid might be the key.

ABC News

Without an egg, sperm or womb, scientists create synthetic embryos in world first

Scientists have grown a synthetic embryo for the first time without fertilised eggs, and it could open doors for growing organs and tissues.

The Guardian - UK

Scientists create world’s first ‘synthetic embryos’

Researchers use stem cells from mice to form embryo-like structures with intestinal tract, beginnings of a brain, and a beating heart

Daily Mirror

Synthetic organ cells grown in a lab for first time after 'game changing' research

Stem cell scientists have created synthetic mouse embryos without the use of sperm or egg, then grown them in an artificial womb for eight days. It could one day be used to create replacement organs

Zenger

New Stem Cell Research Could Cure Baldness

Scientists may have rooted out a discovery that could put an end to baldness.

1 … 6 7 8 9

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

University of Cambridge

US Food and Drug Administration

University of New South Wales

19 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.