Snyder Sides With U-M In Stem Cell Debate
The University of Michigan's battle with Republican lawmakers over stem cell research took a turn Friday when Republican Gov. Rick Snyder sided with t...
The University of Michigan's battle with Republican lawmakers over stem cell research took a turn Friday when Republican Gov. Rick Snyder sided with t...
Posted 04.18.2012
No, it's not the mouse version of a Mohawk. These creatures, the subjects of a new study, were implanted with follicles made from human cells, which s...
The Huffington Post | Melissa Cronin, David Freeman | Posted 04.16.2012
Can stem cells cure AIDS? Not yet. But a provocative new study shows that human stem cells can be genetically engineered to attack living cells infect...
AP | JIM VERTUNO | Posted 04.13.2012
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Medical Board on Friday approved new rules on experimental stem cell therapies such as the one Gov. Rick Perry underwe...
AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 03.15.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has received a complaint against a company that stored adult stem cells from Texas Governor Rick Perry ...
Birgitta Lauren | Posted 05.06.2012
From healthier reproduction to anti-aging, exercise is still one of the most promising health strategies and is crucial for new moms.
AP/The Huffington Post | By LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 02.27.2012
WASHINGTON -- For 60 years, doctors have believed women were born with all the eggs they'll ever have. Now Harvard scientists are challenging that dog...
S. Lochlann Jain | Posted 04.24.2012
The fetuses created by IVF will ideally become healthy people. But the IVF industry needs federal oversight to ensure that the children produced have the maximum chance of growing up to be healthy adults.
The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 01.23.2012
Stem cells sure are versatile. They're being eyed as the key to treating medical conditions ranging from heart disease to neurological problems and bl...
AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 03.24.2012
LOS ANGELES — Two legally blind women appeared to gain some vision after receiving an experimental treatment using embryonic stem cells, scienti...
Posted 01.19.2012
By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer Published: 01/18/2012 05:20 PM EST on MyHealthNewsDaily Researchers in Californi...
Paul Knoepfler | Posted 03.11.2012
As a scientist working on stem cells, I like to use sports analogies when explaining my work to non-scientists. I have found this to be a very effective tool for communicating about this very high tech, jargon-filled area.
www.foxnews.com | Posted 01.09.2012
The secret to eternal youth may come in the form of stem cell injections, U.S. scientists claimed. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh ma...
The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 11.29.2011
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said rival Newt Gingrich is "inconsistent" when it comes to issues social conservatives care about. ...
Huffington Post | Amanda Chan | Posted 10.08.2011
Scientists have successfully restored fertility to sterile mice by growing sperm cells from stem cells in a lab. The research, while still early, c...
Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 09.03.2011
The Declaration of Independence was a statement that we intend to run this place the way we want. The Constitution was the blueprint for how we're going to do it.
Posted 05.25.2011
For Rowan University football star Matt Hoffman, sitting out his junior year was something he was willing to do to save a life. The athlete sacrifice...
AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Scientists are reporting early success at transforming one kind of specialized cell into another, a feat of biological alchemy that d...
The Michigan Daily | Posted 05.25.2011
Sean Morrison, director of the University's Center for Stem Cell Biology at the Life Sciences Institute, will testify on Thursday in front of a United...
John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) sponsored a poetry contest to promote Stem Cell Awareness Day last Wednesday, and the seemingly innocuous event kicked up a serious controversy.
Sen. Tom Harkin | Posted 05.25.2011
I am deeply concerned that up-and-coming scientists might avoid entering this field because of fears their research could be arbitrarily terminated at any time by rulings like the one handed down by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth this summer.
Susan L. Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011
Everyone wants cures for diseases and it is time to acknowledge that the tens of millions of living Americans suffering from chronic illness and disabling conditions are more important than cells in a petri dish.
Eli Y. Adashi | Posted 05.25.2011
The issuance of a temporary injunction barring the NIH from funding human embryonic stem cell research should hardly have come as a surprise. Many of the same plaintiffs and much of the same legal team filed a similar lawsuit a decade earlier.
AP | PETE YOST and LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The government may resume funding of embryonic stem cell research for now, an appeals court said Thursday, but the short-term appro...
AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday asked a federal judge to lift a restraining order that it says could undercut federally funded ...
Posted 04.23.2012