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State and federal policymakers, academic researchers and others have spent a lot of time thinking about how to increase the pool of U.S. students with interest and talent in math and science who study ...

De Zavala Elementary School in Midland ISD is launching a new STEM model aimed at boosting curiosity, creativity and ...

A movement seeks to change the STEM model of the 20th century to a new model that incorporates art and design. Many are familiar with STEM: science, technology, engineering, and math. But a new model, ...

This week we are hearing from a research-practice collaboration between the American Institutes for Research (AIR, @Education_AIR) and the UTeach (@uteachinstitute) program to prepare STEM (science, ...

Glaucoma is a condition that damages the eye’s optic nerve. It is usually the result of high pressure inside the eye. Over time the pressure can erode the retinal ganglion cells which may lead to ...

Researchers have compared the ability of cells derived from different types of human stem cell to reverse disease in a rat model of Parkinson disease and identified a stem cell population that they ...

Researchers have developed a new stem cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which replicates development of the tissues supporting the embryo from two to four weeks after fertilization. This is ...

Researchers at the Eye Genetics Research Unit at Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) are the first in the world to ...

Researchers from the Babraham Institute have today published their latest work in the journal Cell Stem Cell describing a new subset of human embryonic stem cells that closely resemble the cells ...

Using a newly devised, three-dimensional model to study the regeneration of nerve tissue in the nose, researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences ...