Washington, May 24 (ANI): Doctors have been able to successfully treat a 2.5-year-old boy who had suffered from cardiac arrest and brain damage, putting him in a vegetative state, using his own cord blood containing stem cells.

Washington, May 16 (ANI): A team of scientists has successfully reprogrammed human skin cells to become embryonic stem cells capable of transforming into any other cell type in the body.

Washington, May 14 (ANI): A scientist from Netherlands has genetically engineered a hamburger - made from billions of stem cells.

Washington, May 1 (ANI): Two-year-old Hannah Warren lived her whole life in an intensive care unit with a breathing tube, as she was born without a windpipe and has been unable to talk, swallow, or eat on her own.

Washington, April 22 (ANI): In a study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, human embryonic stem cells have for the first time been transformed into nerve cells that helped mice regain the ability to learn and remember.

Washington, April 11 (ANI): Researchers have found that therapy with cardiopoietic (cardiogenically-instructed) or "smart" stem cells can improve heart health for people suffering from heart failure.

Washington, April 7 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry and New York-based NeoStem Inc. are all set for the first known human trial to use embryonic-like stem cells collected from adult cells to grow bone.

Washington, April 7 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Michigan (UM) have reportedly discovered a new way to overcome one of the major obstacles to growing new organs-replacement hearts, lungs and kidneys.

Washington, April 5 (ANI): American researchers have for the first time isolated adult stem cells from human intestinal tissue.

Washington, Mar. 28 (ANI): Scientists have discovered the existence of a cancer inducing DNA re-alignment in stem cells taken from human prostate cancers.

Washington, Mar 25 (ANI): Scientists have used stem cells taken from amniotic fluid to restore gut structure and function following intestinal damage in rodents, paving the way for a new form of cell therapy to reverse serious damage from inflammation in the intestines of babies.

Washington, Mar 16 (ANI): Transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells cultivated on the surface of nanofibrous meshes could be a novel therapeutic strategy against post-prostatectomy erectile dysfunction (ED), researchers have claimed.

London, March 6 (ANI): Combining genetic repair with cellular reprogramming, researchers at the University of Minnesota's Lillehei Heart Institute have generated stem cells capable of muscle regeneration in a mouse model for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).

London, February 26 (ANI): Scientists at Oregon Health and Science University have become the first to grow liver stem cells in culture.

London, Feb.12 (ANI): Artificial bone, created using stem cells and a new lightweight plastic, could soon be used to heal shattered limbs.

Washington, February 10 (ANI): A seven-year partnership between the University of Southampton and the University of Edinburgh has resulted in an artificial bone, created using stem cells and a new lightweight plastic, that could soon be used to heal shattered limbs.

Washington, February 6(ANI): Scientists have discovered a trigger that turns muscle stem cells into brown fat, a form of good fat that could play a critical role in the fight against obesity.

London, February 5 (ANI): Scientists have identified the location and certain genetic characteristics of taste stem cells on the tongue.

London, Feb 5 (ANI): Scientists are now a step closer to creating artificial human organs and using them for transplants, after using 3D printing to produce clusters of stem cells.

Washington, February 4 (ANI): Duke Medicine researchers have found that epidermal growth factor speed the recovery of blood-making stem cells after exposure to radiation.

London, February 4 (ANI): Making a breakthrough in the battle against breast cancer, scientists have used a combination of drugs to target cancer stem cells that cause the disease to spread.

Washington, Feb 1 (ANI): Scientists at Monash University are closer to growing parts of the human eye in the lab and developing a cure for congenital sight impairment caused by lens damage.

Washington, January 31 (ANI): The Idu-Mishmi community of Arunachal Pradesh and RIWATCH (Research Institute of World's Ancient Traditions Cultures and Heritage) have made a great contribution in studying dormant Mycobacterium in TB that has affected nearly 4 billion people in the world and causing 1.9 million deaths yearly.

London, January 28 (ANI): A Bolivian research team has suggested that injecting stem cells in the vital period immediately after a stroke may aid recovery.

Tokyo, January 23(ANI): Kyoto University researchers have for the first time successfully generated kidney tissue from induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells.