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 ...

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 ...

Haploid embryonic stem cell research explores the utilisation of cells that contain a single set of chromosomes to probe gene function with unprecedented clarity. This unique genomic configuration ...

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 ...

A team at Kobe University has created a game-changing resource for autism research: 63 mouse embryonic stem cell lines, each carrying a genetic mutation strongly associated with the disorder. By ...

January 27, 2009 — Geron Corp announced it has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a phase 1 trial of GRNOPC1, a cell therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESC), in ...

Egg whites may be perfect for a health-conscious breakfast, but egg yolks turned out to be the key ingredient for cultivating bird embryonic stem cells (ESCs) in the lab. Using a growing medium of egg ...

At Yale, researchers are using stem cells to grow brain organoids for psychiatric research, regenerate tissues for cancer patients and reprogram blood to reverse immune aging. Despite political ...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation show that cancer doesn’t invent new tricks—it reawakens embryonic splicing ...