Doctors are investigating if stem cells taken from a person's own fat can help heal shoulder injuries. Stem cells are said to help repair or re-generate cells. But can adult stem cells taken from a ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which Staphylococcus aureus—one of the most common causes of skin and soft ...

Assistant Professor of Biology Vicki Losick admits she harbors a desire to change the world a little bit. “I want to make ‘polyploidy’ a household word,” Losick said in her Higgins Hall office, next ...

The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, or maintaining hair growth. But as research from Rockefeller University has ...

Penn Medicine researchers unveiled in a recently published paper that a type of stem cell originating in skeletal muscle cells can turn into bone. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Zinc is an essential mineral required for a wide range of cellular metabolic activities. It plays vital roles in regulating the catabolic activities of several enzymes and increasing immune functions, ...