Using proteins instead of genes, scientists have now been able to reprogram skin cells in to more embryonic-like cells.

Big day for some scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and UC-San Francisco who have managed to succeed in isolating stem cells from human testes. That means, they can differentiate into each of the three main types of tissues of the body.

According to the study, the testes stem cells have different patterns of [...]

A team of scientists from Caltech (California Institute of Technology) have developed a “barcode chip” that represents e new milestone in diagnostic medical testing. This chip uses very little blood to calculate the concentrations for dozens of proteins. Among these proteins, the ones that mark presence of heart diseases and cancer are measured. And all [...]

We’ve all seen movies where certain indigenous people mix up a cocktail of some plants and come up with a cure for practically anything. It seems that Hollywood is not always wrong. Scientists at the University of Washington are currently updating a traditional Chinese medicine in order to create a drug that is more than 1200 [...]

We’ve all seen science fiction movies where people traveling great distances in space were sleeping in “refrigerators” that kept them at the same age when they woke up as they were at the start of the journey hundreds of years ago. Scientists have been working at transforming this technique into reality.  Even though they are far [...]