Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. Paul Knoepfler of the UC Davis School of Medicine has a bit of a hobby: keeping track of stem cell clinics operating in the U.S. He estimates that ...

Andrew Cassy had spent his working life in a telecommunications research department until a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in 2010 pushed him into early retirement. Curious about his illness, which ...

Robert Madson has spent most of his life in the Air Force. After 28 deployments and flying all over the world in cramped cockpits, pain in his back and neck have taken a toll. He's hoping the public ...

People who receive stem cell therapy within a week of their first heart attack have nearly a 60 per cent lower risk of ...

After decades of hype and setbacks, scientists have made impressive progress into tricking stem cells into repairing organs. Stem cells (like the ones above, growing in petri dishes) are able to ...