Somehow, it's not an urban legend that a woman who underwent an unregulated cosmetic surgery involving stem cells grew bone fragments in her eye.

So, yeah, you hear about stem cells, but it's not until you read about surgeons doing freaky stuff with them that you realize their potential.

Note to self: never Google anything involving the worm "sperm" before activating SafeSearch ever again.

Hey, remember when there was this huge argument between people suffering from various terrible diseases and fundamentalist religious people in the '00s over stem cells and whether or not they were "moral", which we are totally not going to get into, and was ridiculous anyway since it was mostly theory at that point.

Jörg C.

You probably heard earlier this week that doctors at Germany's Charite Universitatsmedizin hospital announced they had "cured" HIV in a cancer patient who had received a stem cell transplant.

Getting healed in a video game is a snap.

After 14 years and a cost of $10.

Up till now, liver cells couldn't be grown in a lab, so researching liver diseases was difficult.