Body weight and body mass index alone are not enough to predict whether someone will develop a metabolic disease. A new atlas of cells in fat tissue could help to explain why some overweight people ...

Although obese individuals are at greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, not all obese people ...

STEM Potential supports you through years 10 and 12 with insightful lectures, subject-specific workshops and a non-residential summer school. STEM Potential is a multi-year programme of activities and ...

Ageing is a natural and unavoidable phenomenon that brings with it various health challenges, including arthritis, memory ...

Despite advances in conventional treatment modalities, patients with metastatic CRC often face limited options and poor outcomes. Chimeric antigen receptor-T (CAR-T) cell therapy, initially successful ...

Christopher Groux is an editor, writer and accessibility advocate. Before joining the Forbes Health team, he covered Accessibility at Reviewed and gaming at Inverse and Newsweek. When he’s not ...

Objective To investigate if treatment with a single injection of autologous micro-fragmented adipose tissue improved the patient-reported health compared to a placebo saline injection in patients ...

Stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into more mature, specialised cells. Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent ...

Treatment for CLL continues to change. Doctors are using newer targeted cancer drugs. This means a stem cell transplant is now a less common treatment for CLL. You have a transplant using donor cells ...

For the new therapy, these cells are derived from stem cells that originated from healthy adult donor tissue - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) - to make therapeutic CAR-NK cells.