What blood stem cell donors actually go through
From cheek swab to donation day and the year after: what registry donors go through, the two ways to donate, recovery, costs and contact with the patient.
Regenerative Medicine
Stem cells, cord blood, tissue repair and cell therapies: what works today, what is in trials and what is still hope.
Cord blood, genetic diversity and the search for a match
Why patients of mixed or non-European ancestry face longer odds of a matched adult donor, and how cord blood and half-matched transplants changed that.
Induced pluripotent stem cells explained: how adult cells are wound back to the start
How four genes turned adult cells into pluripotent stem cells, what iPSCs are used for, the first patients treated and the safety questions still open.
How a cell therapy is made, from donor to dose
A pill comes off a production line by the million. Many cell therapies are made one patient at a time. Here is every step from collection to infusion.
What makes a stem cell a stem cell
Stem cells are defined by what they do, not by how they look. A plain guide to self-renewal, potency, niches and blood stem cells.