Stem cells are cells found in all multi cellular organisms. They are characterized by the ability to renew the... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell

For a good half-hour, Dasty did the slobbery, happy dog thing — chomping on a hard rubber toy, offering it to visitors, chasing it when it was thrown. Hard to believe that just a few months ago, this 5-year-old German shepherd was virtually crippled by severe arthritis ...

A stem cell transplant is a medical procedure consisting of the transfer of stem cells into the system of a cancer patient who is undergoing chemotherapy. The thing is that the powerful chemo-drugs used for reducing tumors also destroy the cells responsible for blood regeneration. Therefore, ...

Stem Cells are crucial to develop organisms. They are nonspecialized cells which have the potential to create other types of specific cells, such as blood-, brain-, tissue- or muscle-cells. Stem cells are in our body all our lives, but are far more potent in a fetus than in an ...