Stem Cells News

June 26, 2025

Top Headlines

How Rearranged Genes Drive Kidney Cancer Progression

May 16, 2025 — Scientists report that they have learned how certain combinations of rearranged genes can promote the progression of a rare type of kidney ...

Scientists Develop New Bone Marrow Imaging Technique

Apr. 24, 2025 — A new bone marrow imaging technique could change treatment for cancer, autoimmune disease and musculoskeletal ...

Reprogramming Cancer Cells to Treat an Aggressive Type of Leukemia

Apr. 16, 2025 — A new study has identified a novel strategy for treating acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), an aggressive blood cancer for which the median survival time following diagnosis remains just 8.5 ...

Rapid Growth of Blood Cancer Driven by a Single Genetic 'Hit'

Apr. 11, 2025 — Researchers have explored the evolution of the genetic change that causes chronic myeloid leukaemia and show its ability to drive the ...

Glucose Revealed as a Master Regulator of Tissue Regeneration

Mar. 27, 2025 — Glucose is life's main energy source. But a new study reveals a surprising role as a master manipulator of tissue maturation, hinting at its importance in diabetes and ...

FLIpping the Switch: Boosting Stem Cell Numbers for Therapies

Mar. 10, 2025 — A single molecular switch is essential for blood stem cells to enter an activated, regenerative state in which they produce new blood cells, according to a preclinical study. The discovery could lead to more effective bone marrow transplants and ...

Uncovering the Protein Complex Critical to Male Fertility

Mar. 7, 2025 — Researchers found that TEX38 and ZDHHC19 co-localize on the plasma membrane of spermatids and mediate S-palmitoylation of ARRDC5, a crucial protein for spermatogenesis. Disrupting either TEX38 or ZDHHC19 inhibited cytoplasm removal from the sperm ...

Naturally Occurring Mechanism Hampers Fertility

Mar. 5, 2025 — A research team has uncovered how a naturally occurring biological mechanism found in mammals is able to prevent sperm cells from interacting with an egg, preventing fertilization. The discovery, identified in rodent models, offers a new path for ...

How Our Lungs Back Up the Bone Marrow to Make Our Blood

Mar. 2, 2025 — Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, scientists assumed that blood production took place ...

Novel Molecular Insights Into Bone Remodeling

Feb. 6, 2025 — The discovery of a family with sequence similarity 102 member A (Fam102a) protein as a novel bone remodeling factor that regulates both osteoclast and osteoblast differentiation can aid the development of innovative therapeutic strategies to counter ...

Boosting This Molecule Could Help Retain Muscle While Losing Fat

Jan. 23, 2025 — With the recent surge in popularity of weight loss drugs like Ozempic, altogether called GLP-1s, there has been renewed scientific interest in understanding how our bodies regulate muscle growth. Scientists have linked the protein BCL6 to the ...

Can the Heart Heal Itself? New Study Says It Can

Dec. 27, 2024 — Physician-scientists found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart ...

Latest Headlines

updated 1:05pm EDT

New IVF Method Mimics Fallopian Tube Environment, Increasing Sperm Viability

Mar. 25, 2025 — The success of in vitro fertilization depends on many factors, one of which is sperm viability. A recent study documents a new way to select viable ...

Borrowing Nature's Blueprint: How Scientists Replicated Bone Marrow

Jan. 31, 2025 — Researchers have developed a platform that emulates human bone marrow's native environment. This breakthrough addresses a critical need in medical science, as animal studies often fail to fully ...

How Breast Cancer Cells Survive in Bone Marrow After Remission

Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study has shed light on a previously poorly understood aspect of breast cancer recurrence: how cancer cells survive in bone marrow despite targeted ...

Early Skeleton Map Reveals How Bones Form in Humans

Nov. 21, 2024 — Full view of how bones and joints form in the first trimester uncovers cells and pathways that could help diagnose and treat skeletal conditions in the ...

When Muscles Work Out, They Help Neurons to Grow

Nov. 20, 2024 — Exercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and ...

Treatment for Age And Cancer-Related Muscle Degeneration

Sep. 27, 2024 — With the global population ageing rapidly, sarcopenia, a condition that affects millions of older adults and severely diminishes their quality of life, is emerging as an urgent public health issue. ...

Low Gravity in Space Travel Found to Weaken and Disrupt Normal Rhythm in Heart Muscle Cells

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists who arranged for 48 human bioengineered heart tissue samples to spend 30 days at the International Space Station report evidence that the ...

Surprising Finding in Glioblastomas

July 31, 2024 — Glioblastomas are highly aggressive, usually incurable brain tumors. If all therapeutic options are exhausted, patients have an average life expectancy of less than two years. Now researchers have ...

Breakthrough in Skeletal Muscle Regeneration

July 22, 2024 — In a finding that opens the door to the development of targeted therapies for various muscle disorders, newly published research identifies key mechanisms of skeletal muscle regeneration and growth ...

Muscle Machine: How Water Controls the Speed of Muscle Contraction

July 12, 2024 — The flow of water within a muscle fiber may dictate how quickly muscle can contract, according to a new ...

Spinning Fusion Fuel for Efficiency

Nov. 19, 2024 — A new method to increase fusion-fuel efficiency would involve aligning the quantum spin of deuterium and tritium and changing the mix of the two fuels. The approach could boost tritium-burn ...

A Promising Weapon Against Measles

June 27, 2024 — What happens when measles virus meets a human cell? The viral machinery unfolds in just the right way to reveal key pieces that let it fuse itself into the host cell ...

Lab-Grown Muscles Reveal Mysteries of Rare Muscle Diseases

June 21, 2024 — Biomedical engineers have grown muscles in a lab to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B ...

Promising Drug Target for Treating Osteoporosis

June 18, 2024 — Osteoporosis or the weakening of bones makes the aging population vulnerable to fractures and a decreased quality of life. The parathyroid hormone (PTH)-derived peptide -- teriparatide has ...

New Study Reveals Key Protein That Could Help Prevent Excessive Bone Loss in Osteoporosis

May 30, 2024 — Osteoporosis is characterized by the weakening of bones, making them fragile and prone to breakage. Excessive activity of 'osteoclasts' or bone-absorbing cells leads to bone loss. Targeting ...

New Therapeutic Avenues in Bone Repair

May 21, 2024 — Researchers have shown that a naturally occurring peptide (small protein) holds promise as a new therapeutic for osteoporosis and other disorders that feature bone loss, with distinct advantages over ...

Unveiling the Mysteries of Cell Division in Embryos With Timelapse Photography

Apr. 24, 2024 — New research sheds light on embryonic mitosis, thanks to a combination of novel imaging techniques, CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology, a modern protein-knockdown system, and medaka, or Japanese ...

Skeleton-Wide Study of Blood Cell Formation Yields Surprising Findings

Mar. 20, 2024 — Imagine being able to count the different types of blood cells being formed inside the tiny bones of a mouse and pinpointing the strings and clusters of cells within the bone marrow that are ...

New Discovery Reveals How the Egg Controls Sperm Entry

Mar. 14, 2024 — After the egg has been fertilized by a sperm, the surrounding egg coat tightens, mechanically preventing the entry of additional sperm and the ensuing death of the embryo, a new study finds. The work ...

How Does a Virus Hijack Insect Sperm to Control Disease Vectors and Pests?

Mar. 7, 2024 — A widespread bacteria called Wolbachia and a virus that it carries can cause sterility in male insects by hijacking their sperm, preventing them from fertilizing eggs of females that do not have the ...

Toward Understanding Sperm Quality

Mar. 5, 2024 — A novel screening system enables researchers to investigate sperm cell development and health at the molecular level. The new approach promises breakthroughs in male contraception and infertility ...

Scientists Discover New Target for Reversible, Non-Hormonal Male Birth Control

Feb. 20, 2024 — Scientists discovered a new target for reversible, non-hormonal male birth control. The drug, an HDAC inhibitor, blocked sperm production and fertility in male mice without affecting libido or future ...

Male Fertility Gene Discovery Reveals Path to Success for Sperm

Feb. 14, 2024 — The discovery of a pair of genes that work in perfect harmony to protect male fertility could provide new insights into some unexplained cases of the most severe form of infertility, research ...

Breakthrough in Muscle Regeneration: Nanotech Scaffolding Supports Tissue Growth

Jan. 24, 2024 — MXene nanoparticle scaffolds have been shown to stimulate muscle growth, making them a promising option to treat muscle loss and damage. Now, researchers explain the molecular mechanisms behind their ...

Infertility: Sperm Need a Breakthrough for Fertilization

Jan. 8, 2024 — A new study identifies the defective function of CatSper, an ion channel controlling calcium levels in sperm, as a common cause of seemingly unexplained male infertility. CatSper-deficient human ...

New Findings Reveal Important Insights Into Age-Related Nonresolving Inflammation

Dec. 6, 2023 — Aging is associated with chronic, nonresolving inflammation, or 'inflammaging,' that can lead to tissue dysfunction. New findings reveal insights into the cellular programs and factors that ...

Stronger Thigh Muscles May Prevent Knee Replacement Surgery

Nov. 27, 2023 — Stronger quadriceps muscles, relative to the hamstrings, may lower the risk of total knee replacement, according to new research. Researchers said the findings could inform strength-training programs ...

Scientists Identify T-Cell Differentiation Nodes to Improve Cancer-Killing

Nov. 15, 2023 — Scientists mapped the gene regulatory networks responsible for progressive differentiation states of tumor-infiltrating T cells, using a technology known as single-cell CRISPR screening to knock out ...

Researchers Chart the Contents of Human Bone Marrow

Nov. 14, 2023 — A team has mapped the location and spatial features of blood-forming cells within human bone marrow. Their findings confirm hypotheses about the anatomy of this tissue and provide a powerful new ...

Mobile Phone Use May Affect Semen Quality, Study Shows

Nov. 1, 2023 — Does electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones affect semen quality? While various environmental and lifestyle factors have been proposed to explain the decline in semen quality observed ...