When nutrients run low, hair follicle stem cells can stop making hair and help repair the skin instead. A drop in the amino ...

Thinning hair has always been a symptom of aging, but experts say men seem to be losing their hair earlier than previous generations. Modern lifestyles may quicken hair loss due to increased stress, ...

A study in mice has found that maternal gut microbiome composition during pregnancy has long-term effects on offspring stem cell growth and development. The researchers, headed by Parag Kundu, PhD, at ...

Johns Hopkins University biologists have found that a protein that plays a key role in the lives of stem cells can bolster the growth of damaged muscle tissue, a step that could potentially contribute ...

A newly developed synthetic cell matrix could provide a surface on which to culture and differentiate billions of delicate stem cells for medical uses. For decades, scientists have been exploring ...

An important element in getting blood stem cells to multiply outside the body is to understand which of the approximately 20,000 genes in the human body control their growth. Now a research team at ...