Researchers are now recommending that owners and breeders of thoroughbreds consider banking the umbilical cord stem cells from prize race horses.
Robert Slayton | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
Under the Bush administration we lost eight years stem cell research that might have helped me. At my age I don't have those eight years to spare.
BBC News | Michelle Roberts | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living
Doctors may soon be able to patch up damaged bones and joints anywhere in the body with a simple shot in the arm. ...
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.06.2009 | Politics
The president has not explained precisely why he opposes reproductive cloning. Is his opposition solely based upon the health risks of cloning techniques, or on moral grounds?
Not Larry Sabato | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics
Apparently the General Assembly Democrats allowed legislation to pass BANNING state funds for embryonic stem cell research?!?!?!?!...
Ralph Dittman | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics
Just when President Obama is attempting to open the federal door on all forms of stem cell research, Texas right wing fundamentalists are trying to close the state door.
Sky News | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
The team at Aston University created tiny bundles of cells which act like a mini nervous system. They believe it could help find a cure for degenerati...
Nazca Fontes | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics
Why is leaving an embryo languishing in liquid nitrogen considered preserving the sanctity of human life?
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
If aborted fetuses prove to be a useful source of organs for transplant, we may soon have to grapple with yet another controversial and startling phenomenon: a legal market in fetal tissue and organs.
Michele Kayal | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
The right choice -- the only choice -- was to turn my inability to create life into the chance to save another.
Lynda Resnick | Posted 04.15.2009 | Living
Nowadays, everything is reduced to sound bites of doom and gloom. I've decided to exercise my Constitutional right to the pursuit of happiness. Here's what is making me smile these days.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics
Knocking down the arbitrary wall constructed by Bush will most likely subject far more labs who are obliged to reap the benefits of federal stem cell funding to a federal ethics oversight regime.
Joe Trippi | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
By investing and believing in innovation we will overcome our current economic woes and ensure our prosperity for decades to come.
AP | SHANNON McCAFFREY | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
ATLANTA — A showdown is shaping up in some of the nation's most conservative states over embryonic stem cell research, as opponents draw languag...
Mary Lou Song | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
Letters to President Obama like this one show the balance Americans can find in everything -- even science and God.
Evan Derkacz | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
The following is an excerpt from Lou Ruprecht's post on The Devil's Advocate, the official blog of Religion Dispatches. The President's announcement...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
The stem cell ban imposed by Bush was based on an untenable moral framework compounded by biological illiteracy and religious zeal. It might be appropriate to the Taliban but not for us.
Rabbi David Saperstein | Posted 04.10.2009 | Living
In giving government support to promising research utilizing stem cells, President Obama has shown not just political courage, but a moral vision that resonates with deep religious reverence for life.
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
Some complain Obama's taking on too much by including health care reform in his overall economic agenda. I think he's getting it just right.
Michael Eisen | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
This conflation of science and scientists is offensive and ignorant. In my experience, no one has thought about the moral side of scientific issues more deeply than scientists.
Michael Rugnetta | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
We no longer have the luxury of debating the profound but ultimately unanswerable questions surrounding the dignity of the embryo. The research is proceeding whether we like it or not.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
Monday's White House ceremony lifting the ban on embryonic stem cell research marked a major departure from the Bush administration and a turning poin...
Jeremy Manier | Posted 04.09.2009 | Chicago
Now the hard part begins: implementing a stem-cell policy that's meaningful, has full ethical protections and unlocks the scientific talent that's been held back the last eight years.
Susan L. Solomon | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
While the Obama administration brings a refreshingly friendly attitude toward science, researchers will still lack easy access to the full range of possibilities that stem cells present.
Dr. Peter Klatsky | Posted 04.08.2009 | Politics
I suspect that 60 years from now, doctors will view our practices in a similar manner to how we viewed the pre-antibiotic age.
Barbara Dehn | Posted 05.22.2009 | Living