Stem Cell Backers Worry About McCain
Some of the nation's top embryonic stem cell research advocates say they are growing concerned that Sen. John McCain will backtrack on his previous su...
Some of the nation's top embryonic stem cell research advocates say they are growing concerned that Sen. John McCain will backtrack on his previous su...
AP | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
MADISON, Wis. - Some of the nation's top embryonic stem cell research advocates say they are growing concerned that Sen. John McCain will backtrack on...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
UPDATE BELOW: Stem cell research advocate Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI) responds. In a new ad likely meant to burnish John McCain's "maverick," Republica...
AFP | Kyoko Hasegawa | Posted 08.22.2008 | Home
TOKYO- Japanese scientists said Friday they had derived stem cells from wisdom teeth, opening another way to study deadly diseases without the ethica...
AP | STEPHANIE NANO | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living
NEW YORK — Harvard scientists say they have created stems cells for 10 genetic disorders, which will allow researchers to watch the diseases dev...
ABC News | Posted 07.31.2008 | Living
For the first time, scientists have proven that embryonic-like stem cells that are specific to both a person and to a disease can be manufactured usin...
CNN | Aaron Smith | Posted 02.11.2008 | Business
The first experiments using human embryonic stem cells in human subjects could begin within a few months, the chief executive of biotech Geron said Mo...
Craig Stoltz | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics
The most interesting thing that showed up on the Healthcare08 PoliGraph jumped out in plain red and blue. Several Republicans held positions in the blue zone on some healthcare issues. Not so for Democrats.
AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 12.17.2007 | Living
For the first time, doctors have used stem cells from liposuctioned fat to fix breast defects in women who have had cancerous lumps removed. The appr...
Susan L. Solomon | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics
The greatest loss of all would be if these exciting new discoveries were allowed to create the false belief that the kind of research opposed by the Bush administration was no longer necessary.
New York Times | ANDREW POLLACK | Posted 11.28.2007 | Living
If stem cell researchers were oil prospectors, it could be said that they struck a gusher last week. But to realize the potential boundless riches the...
Dr. Ralph Dittman | Posted 11.21.2007 | Politics
Progress in stem cell research has been delayed due to legal constraints that have restricted public access and wide-spread experimentation in many states of the nation.
AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 11.21.2007 | Living
Scientists have created the equivalent of embryonic stem cells from ordinary skin cells, a breakthrough that could someday produce new treatments for ...
Paul Raeburn | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics
If our religious fellow citizens think it's wrong to study embryonic cells, I don't need to know their reasons. They're getting in my way, and I don't like it.
Reuters | Ben Hirschler | Posted 10.03.2007 | Business
Three of Europe's top drugmakers have backed a new public-private scheme to use stem cells for safety testing of experimental medicines, signaling "bi...
AP | Posted 09.22.2008 | Living