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Stem Cell Research

Boy 1st in NY to receive FDA-approved gene therapy for blood disorder

  • Apr 18, 2024
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Man who can walk again shows potential benefit of stem cell therapy

  • Apr 2, 2024
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Scientists create mice from two dads after making eggs from skin cells

  • Mar 25, 2023

Limited donor pool for BIPOC makes finding bone marrow match difficult

  • Nov 4, 2021

Tiempo: STEM and dentistry-related careers for Latinos

  • Feb 16, 2020

College volleyball player sacrifices playoff game to help save a life

  • Dec 2, 2019

Stem cell donor meets recipient after life-saving transplant

  • May 15, 2019

Leukemia patient gives birth to twins after finding perfect donor match

  • Dec 10, 2018

Latest Videos

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Henrietta Lacks' family settles lawsuit over cancer cell research

  • Aug 2, 2023
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Stem cell and dentistry related careers for Latinos

  • Feb 16, 2020
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Stem cell and dentistry related careers for Latinos

  • Feb 16, 2020
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Stem cell donor meets recipient after life-saving transplant

  • May 15, 2019
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Woman gets Eyewitness News help to get to Israel

  • Jul 23, 2014

Latest Stories

California leukemia patient expecting twins finds perfect donor match

A Southern California woman pregnant with twins has found the perfect bone-marrow donor just weeks after her touching story went viral.

  • Nov 29, 2018

Update: 40,000 potential donors sign up to help California leukemia patient expecting twins

A record-breaking number of people have signed up to be potential bone marrow donors after hearing a story about a California woman who is about to give birth to twins and who is in need of a transplant.

  • Nov 27, 2018

Leukemia patient expecting twins, hoping for donor to save her life

A woman with leukemia who is just two weeks from giving birth to twins is pleading for help as she fights for her life.

  • Nov 23, 2018

Long Island mother, son meet donor who saved his life

Every day for the past 15 years, Tracey Dones of Levittown has thought about the woman who saved Dones' son's life by donating her stem cells.

  • Jan 25, 2018

New study finds that stem cells in human umbilical cord blood has potential to reverse aging

According to researchers at Stanford University, mice injected with stem cells from umbilical cord blood had improved memory and learning.

  • Apr 20, 2017