A group of researchers from University College London made a splash this week with their work prodding heart muscle to repair itself. This is big news, given both the number…

Last year a group of CIRM grantees at Stanford University directly converted mouse skin cells into neurons, bypassing the need to first convert those cells into an embryonic-like state. Now…

CIRM grantees at Stanford University and The Parkinson's Institute have an exciting Cell Stem Cell paper out today showing that they can mimic Parkinson's disease in a lab dish using…

Normal aging takes many decades to create major changes in our cells, so it is very difficult to study. As a result, very little is known about this fundamental inevitability…