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Apligraf is a matrix of cow collagen, human fibroblasts and keratinocyte stem cells (the kind found in skin), that, when applied to chronic wounds (pa...
msn.com | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
CHICAGO - U.S. researchers have found a way to coax human embryonic stem cells to turn into the types of cells that make eggs and sperm, shedding ligh...
The Blotter | Posted 09.23.2009 | Living
New details from a University of Minnesota researcher's initial tests show the stem cells actually make it to the brain when snorted rather than impla...
Reuters | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
U.S. President Barack Obama directed federal agencies on Thursday to enact new rules governing federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells...
Olivia Sterns | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living
As his journey begins so does the world's first-ever clinical trial using stem cells in humans to repair spinal cord damage.
Beth Kohl | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Frozen embryos, like waffles or fish or my old Dell, are only good for so long. You can't just keep them in the freezer forever with the assumption that, once you need them, you can scrape them off and use them.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Great news, everyone! At some point last week, Senators Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) must have finished fighting all the terrorist...
Washington Post | Rob Stein | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics
When President Obama lifted restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research in March, many scientists hailed the move as a long-...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
I think we have heard enough about the sanctity of a Notre Dame degree, and the inappropriateness of awarding such a degree to President Obama, becaus...
Barbara Dehn | Posted 05.22.2009 | Living
Researchers are now recommending that owners and breeders of thoroughbreds consider banking the umbilical cord stem cells from prize race horses.
Times Of London | Sarah-Kate Templeton | Posted 05.19.2009 | Living
BRITISH scientists have developed the world's first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of blindness. Surgeons predict it will become a ro...
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.
USA Today | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics
Former vice president Al Gore is entering the stem cell arena with an announcement today of a $20 million biotech venture in the hot area of "induced ...
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. ...
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?
John W. Delicath | Posted 04.18.2009 | Media
The fact that the Bush administration routinely allowed politics to trump science in the policy-making process is well-known and extensively documented. Yet, the media continue to act otherwise.
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...
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...
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Gizmodo | Mark Wilson | Posted 11.15.2009 | Technology