AUSTRALIAN stem cell scientists, among the world’s pioneers in the development of artificial blood, warn it will be a while yet before donors are no longer needed at the blood bank.

Patients with chronic heart failure given injections of their own bone marrow stem cells have better heart function and live longer

How should clinics that treat patients with injections of their own stem cells be regulated? That question is about to test the jurisdiction of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Adult-derived cells reprogrammed to behave like embryonic stem cells act differently depending on where the cells came from, according to papers published today in Nature and Nature Biotechnology.

As their due date creeps closer, many pregnant women pack a go bag for the hospital: toothbrush, iPod, cute bringing-baby-home outfit, and possibly now a kit to collect and donate the blood in their babies’ umbilical cord.

There has been serious advances in research unveiled this week that involve the use of stem cells to regenerate or repair organs with stem cell. This is just a couple of the stories

CSIRO and the Australian Stem Cell Centre are holding a free public lecture on stem cell research.

Australian researchers have found a type of stem cell that could prove crucial in reducing injury and scarring in the lung and even generate new lung cells.

A combination gene therapy that endows human stem cells with three ways to resist HIV has passed its first safety test in humans.

Stem cell from the amniotic membrane have rejuvenated damaged heart muscle in rats