Stem Cells

For decades, the idea of restoring bone that has already deteriorated has lived somewhere between medical challenge and scientific aspiration. Osteoporosis has long been seen as a one-way road, a slow and steady erosion of the body’s structural foundation. While treatments exist, they mostly act like brakes on a downhill slide. They slow bone loss, …

Dr. Qiong Wang never expected to find cells that behaved opposite to every other stem cell in the human body. While researching why middle-aged waistlines expand despite unchanged eating habits, her team at City of Hope discovered something that challenged fundamental assumptions about cellular aging. Hidden within belly fat tissue, they found stem cells that …