The test, also known as MRI, involves studying the magnetic signals from all the cells in the body.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Another idea is that it could involve the foreign cells left in a woman's body after a pregnancy.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

The deformed cells block blood vessels and cut off the flow of oxygen to tissue in the body.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

But she was not told that a doctor had taken cells from her body for testing.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

During an infusion, stem cells enter the body through a vein leading back to the heart.

VOA: special.2011.02.01

Stem cells from very early embryos are able to grow into any tissue in the body.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Rheumatoid arthritis is considered an autoimmune disease, a disease where the body attacks healthy cells.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

Evidence shows that extended periods of cortisol in the body weakens bones, damages nerve cells in the brain and weakens the body's defense system against disease.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Malignant melanoma begins in body cells that produce a brown color.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

(OMITTED) Your brain registers pain through neurons,special cells that wind through the body.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"What's very interesting about vitamin D is that it's involved all throughout the body, and it's involved on a local level, so you can have vitamin D active in the breasts, in the prostate,in the colon, and it's thought that the locally-acting vitamin D is helping to protect the body against these cancers, regulating how cells grow and how cells die."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28