If you were old enough to watch the news or read the paper back in the late 1990s, you very likely remember Dolly, the cloned sheep. Born in 1996, the researchers responsible for cloning her kept it ...

Using a specific combination of chemicals and growth factors, cancer geneticist Shyam Sharan and his team at the National Cancer Institute have now established 3D milk-secreting mammary organoids from ...

Where the research has really made a difference is with stem cells. Dolly the sheep is on display at the National Museum of Scotland. ©Steph Couvrette/Shutterstock.com Because Dolly came from an adult ...

In my Jan. 6 piece concluding my four-part series on stem cell therapy ... s DNA from a donor’s tissue—for example, skin or mammary tissue. This extracted nucleus is then inserted into an egg cell ...

A third nipple is an extra nipple that forms before birth. Also called a supernumerary nipple, it's usually smaller than a regular nipple and can be mistaken for a mole or birthmark. Third nipples are ...