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Stem Cell researchers at Cambridge and Edinburgh have discovered a promising stem cell therapy for multiple sclerosis. While much work is still needed to translate the discovery into an effective treatment, this breakthrough provides a promising road map towards a cure. A video story featuring the SCI's Robin Franklin can...

New article from the Frye Lab in Nature Communications Mitochondrial disease is a chronic, genetic disorder caused by dysfunctional mitochondria, the organelles that generate energy for cells. Researchers used patient cells to identify a novel mechanism causing mitochondria to fail: Loss-of-function mutations in an enzyme...

Scientists have identified for the first time the ‘cell of origin’ – in other words, the first cell from which the cancer grows – in basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer, and followed the chain of events that lead to the growth of these invasive tumours. Until now, there has been intense interest in...

New article from SCI Affiliate Christine Watson's Lab published in Nature Communications describes a ground-breaking project which tracked the fate of ‘daughter cells’ to find out how cancer moves around the breast from a single stem cell. The cells of the breast undergo a massive expansion during puberty and with every...