Deep within the bone marrow resides a type of cells known as mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). These immature cells can differentiate into cells that produce bone, cartilage, fat, or muscle – a trait that researchers have tried to exploit for tissue repair.

The International Space Station will continue its home improvement project next year, this time by adding a large, inflatable workroom from Bigelow Aerospace.

The remains of Teneriffe murder victim Mayang Prasetyo will be repatriated to her family home in southern Sumatra for burial, an Indonesian foreign affairs official confirmed on Tuesday. Marcus Volke, 28, was caught boiling severed parts of Mayang Prasetyo’s body on his stove in his Brisbane apartment when police responded to requests for a welfare check Saturday night. Other parts …

An Australian woman charged after falsely claiming to be sex trafficking and exploitation victim has been identified by Calgary Police as 26-year old Samantha Lyndell Azzopardi. Calgary Police have taken the unusual measure of releasing the woman’s photo in an effort to determine movements of the accused while she was in Calgary prior to her arrest.

Your genes may be to blame if you can’t get started in the morning without a cup of coffee. Six genes associated with our love, or otherwise, of coffee have now been identified.

Many music fans applaud Mariah Carey for actually singing live at her concerts, but some fans in Japan might be wondering if she should try lip-syncing. The 44-year-old singer played the first date of her ‘Elusive Chanteuse World Tour’ at the Makuhari Messe in Tokyo. But during her rendition of ‘Vision of Love’ – her debut single from 1990 – …

NASA is backing a proposal to place astronauts in a state of artificial hibernation during manned missions to Mars. Such a deep sleep, or therapeutic torpor, would reduce space travelers’ metabolic functions, making such missions easier and less expensive to conduct.

A new privately owned company called You Have Mail is preparing to fill the niche of home delivery once Canada Post stops delivering mail to individual homes.

Police were unable to determine how a Chinese exchange student fell into the grip of his killer, Luka Rocco Magnotta, despite pouring over 7,000 photographs and computer files in the course of their murder probe.

The 18-year-old ringleader of a teen pimping ring is the product of a turbulent upbringing and the court should send her to rehab instead of prison, her lawyer argued at a sentencing hearing Monday.

A New Brunswick Mountie who made national headlines for smoking medical marijuana while in uniform last year has been found dead. Francis’s lawyer T.J. Burke confirmed in an email to The Canadian Press that Francis was found dead on Monday.