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Boys left infertile by childhood cancer treatment may one day be able to produce healthy sperm by using stored stem cells, monkey research suggests.

Scientists may one day slow down aging with a simple injection of youthful stem cells. They’ve just proven this can be done in mice, according to a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications. The mice, which had been engineered to mimic a human disease called progeria, would normally have grown old when they were quite young. But that changed when researchers injected muscle stem cells from healthy young mice into the bellies of the quickly aging mice. Within days, the doddering and frail mice began to act like they were living the storyline of “The Strange Case of Benjamin Button” as they started looking and acting younger.

A team of scientists has reported producing viable sperm using the stem cells of mice in an experiment that researchers hope could one day lead to treating infertile men....

A federal judge has ruled against a lawsuit that temporarily halted the expansion of federally-funded human embryonic stem cell research.

A new plastic surface which overcomes the difficulties associated with growing adult stem cells has been developed, scientists claim.

Induced pluripotent stem cells appear to have the healing potential of embryonic stem cells without the controversy, but when given to mice, they didn’t survive the immune response.

A part of the eye that is essential for vision has been created in the laboratory from animal stem cells, offering hope to the blind and partially sighted.

An appeals court ruled Tuesday that government funding of embryonic stem cell research can continue for now.

In a surprise result that can help in the understanding of both aging and cancer, researchers working with an engineered type of stem cell said they reversed the aging process in a rare genetic disease.

Pigs could soon become life-savers for humans thanks to recent findings in China, where researchers were able to turn ordinary pig cells into stem cells that can be used to treat a variety of ailments in people.