The gap between stem cell research and regenerative medicine just became a lot narrower, thanks to a new technique that coaxes stem cells, with potential to become any tissue type, to take the first step to specialization. It is the first time this critical step has been demonstrated in a laboratory.

Harvard Stem Cell Institute, initially just an idea, quickly became a generator of scientific discoveries.

Important resource for speeding research and diagnostic development.

Findings should help narrow the search for genetic contributions of autism and suggest new routes for therapy.

In fruit flies, taste buds appear to help promote a long, healthy life.

Manipulating how plants express their genes holds the promise of higher crop yields and better performance under drought or other environmental stress.

Genetic material hitchhiking in our cells may shape physical traits more than we thought.

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes an added pair of DNA “letters,” or bases, not found in nature. The cells of this unique bacterium can replicate the unnatural DNA bases more or less normally, for as long as the molecular building blocks are supplied.

Bioengineers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Montreal have used DNA to develop a tool that detects and reacts to chemical changes caused by cancer cells and that may one day be used to deliver drugs to tumor cells.

Leica Microsystems’ microscopes can now fully integrate with Neurolucida and Stereo Investigator software for analyzing cells in neuroscience research.

University of Adelaide researchers have discovered that stem cells taken from teeth can grow to resemble brain cells, suggesting they could one day be used in the brain as a therapy for stroke.

 Findings bring stem cell therapy for damaged hearts closer to clinical trials.