Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of ...

How do stem cells know what to become?Nearly three decades after scientists isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, researchers are still ...

Doctors in Atlanta are monitoring the first patient to receive an injection of millions of human embryonic stem cells in a government-sanctioned attempt to test the promising but ethically fraught ...

Scripps Research neuroscientist Giordano Lippi is the recipient of a $4 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to study haploinsufficiency, a condition where only ...

Stem cells are special kinds of cells in our bodies that can become any other type of cell. They have huge potential for medicine, and trials are currently under way using stem cells to replace ...

During embryonic stem cell (ESC) development, pluripotent stem cells transition from a naïve state into a primed state before they take their first steps toward a lineage commitment. Jacob Hanna, a ...

Bush voiced support for limited federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, several members of Congress vowed to push forward proposals that go further than Bush's plan. In a nationally ...

With biotech companies inching up on clinical trials for human embryonic stem cell-based therapies, the US Food and Drug Administration held a meeting yesterday to discuss scientific issues in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stem cells made from human embryos can home in on damaged eyes, hearts and arteries of mice and rats, and appear to start repairs, a U.S. company said on Monday. Sign up here.

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...