Spring is rhubarb season, that time of the year when growers pick lots of the sharp and sweet stems to use in pies, tarts, cakes, crumbles, and other desserts. The versatile rhubarb stems can even ...

Have you ever wondered how to grow rhubarb? Delicious in a cake, compote, or crumble with custard, the elegant pink and green stems tend to be one of the earliest harvests of the year.

Stem cells can renew themselves without differentiating. Aging, inflammation, and environmental exposures may drive phenotypic changes in tissue stem cells that cause them to become cancer stem cells.

For the highest yields of rhubarb stems, fertilize your plants three times per year. Apply 2 to 3 inches of composted manure, compost or ½ cup of an all-purpose garden fertilizer, such as 10-10 ...

Rhubarb likes rich, well-draining soil and eight hours of sun a day. Less than eight hours results in weak stems and flaccid plants.

Today's news of a breakthrough in stem cell research captured the attention of scientists around the world. For years, researchers have been investigating how to get adult stem cells to behave ...

Spring sprung early this year, and that means that rhubarb gardens are popping up. What’s appearing in grocery stores now most likely came from the Pacific Northwest. Soon, some chains should ...

Rhubarb is an ingredient with an identity crisis. If it’s a vegetable, why is it always treated like a fruit? More importantly, what other vegetables can be turned into sweet-tart compote?

First mouse cells were turned into "totipotent" stem cells, and now early work suggests the same might have been achieved with human cells ...

Poor, misunderstood rhubarb. While it’s often called a fruit, it’s actually a vegetable. And while it’s a common ingredient in sugary, heavy desserts, thanks to its mouth-puckering tartness, it’s ...

Patient-derived parathyroid organoids (PTOs) could pave the way for future physiology studies and drug-screening applications, as shown in a new study.

Researchers have coaxed stem cells to grow into amniotic sacs filled with fluid 1. The model sacs, which grew to roughly the same size as a four-week-old sac surrounding a developing embryo, could ...