A new study released by Johns Hopkins Medicine may shed light on the seemingly never ending search for understanding cancer. Researchers have discovered an unexpected phenomenon in the organs that produce sperm in fruit flies: When a certain kind of stem cell is killed off experimentally, another group of non-stem cells can come out of retirement […]
NASA, CASIS Make Space Station Accessible for Stem Cell Research
Scientists take advantage of the space station’s microgravity environment to study the properties of non-embryonic stem cells. Dec. 6, 2013 – NASA and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) are enabling research aboard the International Space Station that could lead to new stem cell-based therapies for medical conditions faced on Earth and […]