June 4 -- WEDNESDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- Using cells from pig ears and bone marrow, researchers in China generated a type of stem cell capable of developing into any type of cell in the body.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers have found a way to transform ordinary cells from pigs into powerful stem cells in a move that may have implications for human health. With these stem cells, they ...

All of the patients who received stem cells have shown improved heart function and less heart scarring, compared to a control group that showed no improvement. Researchers believe that the stem cells ...

A research team has developed a serum-free system combined with CRISPR/Cas gene editing that enables long-term expansion and efficient muscle differentiation of porcine satellite cells, laying the ...

An update on research efforts that are exploring the use of stem cells to fix damaged hearts. We're going to switch gears here. For the rest of the hour, we'll take a look at the growing field of ...

In a large-animal model study, researchers have found that heart attack recovery is aided by injection of heart muscle cell spheroids derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells, or hiPSCs, that ...

- Stem cells can be manipulated, under certain conditions, to become mature cells with special functions, such as the beating cells of the heart muscle or insulin-producing cells of the pancreas.