Jan. 12, 2007—Earlier this week, researchers announced that they had found a rich supply of stem cells in the amniotic fluid which surrounds an embryo. This announcement comes on the heels of months ...

WASHINGTON -- A stubborn Senate voted Wednesday to ease restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem-cell research, ignoring President Bush's threat of a second veto on legislation designed to lead ...

We like to think that the stem cell controversy will, sometime before mankind’s end, give us definitions we can act thoughtfully upon. We need not only verbal definitions but moral perspectives. These ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – A stubborn Senate voted Wednesday to ease restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, ignoring President Bush’s threat of a second veto on legislation designed to ...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Wednesday to ease restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, ignoring President Bush's threat of a second veto on legislation designed to lead to new ...

Using embryonic stem cells for medical research should not be controversial. Thousands of such cells are routinely discarded and destroyed by fertility labs. They might as well be used in research to ...

For several years, researchers studied human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to understand the unique features of these pluripotent cells, but on their own, they poorly resembled the complex structures ...

Although embryonic stem cells (ESCs) have been successfully derived from mice and rats, efforts to establish chimeric and germline-competent ESC lines in species beyond rodents have been unsuccessful.

Jennifer Zenker receives funding from NHMRC and Viertel Foundation. Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as “miracle” cells –ones that can grow into any other type of cell in ...