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During pregnancy, maternal and fetal cells migrate back and forth across the placenta, with fetal cells entering the mother's ...

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

A new study reveals that age-related changes in the gut microbiota directly impair intestinal stem cell (ISC) function and that restoring a youthful microbial environment can reverse this decline.

A match for 16-year-old Leo Sproson, of Bromsgrove in the Midlands, was found following a Mirror appeal, but the donor has to ...

One‑year‑old Charlotte Akers’ life hung in the balance until her one‑in‑a‑billion match was found — a stranger from Poland ...

As pediatric flu deaths rise, doctors warn symptoms can escalate quickly in children and stress that flu shots remain the ...

The father of a teenage leukaemia patient has offered to donate his stem cells to his own son, after the transplant from the ...

The mother and daughter received identical diagnoses just over a year apart of multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that occurs ...

A mother-of-two feared she would never witness her children growing up following an incurable diagnosis triggered by a sore ...

Deb revealed this snap decision to take blood tests that day resulted in an "early diagnosis that (she) might not have had ...