stem cells

Cambridge research that will enable scientists to grow and study embryos in the lab for almost two weeks has been named as the People’s Choice for...

Two Cambridge institutes have today been confirmed as major research centres by biomedical research charity Wellcome, receiving continued support for...

Science is demanding as well as exciting. Dish Life , the final of four Cambridge Shorts films, compares the task of raising stem cells in the lab to...

Scientists have identified for the first time the ‘cell of origin’ – in other words, the first cell from which the cancer grows – in basal cell...

A new technique that allows embryos to develop in vitro beyond the implantation stage (when the embryo would normally implant into the womb) has been...

Genetic ‘signatures’ of early-stage embryos confirm that our development begins to take shape as early as the second day after conception, when we...

Golnar Kolahgar (Gurdon Institute) discusses the suggestion that the stem cells which allow our organs to grow “know” their own sexual identity.

There are many challenges facing people with spinal cord injury – and walking again is often the least of their problems. Cambridge research could...