Death fuels volatile stem cell debate
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WASHINGTONâChristopher Reeve&#39;s death has added another layer of emotion to what already had become a volatile debate over stem cell research on the US campaign trail.
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NEW YORK -- Scientists say they have created a stem cell line from a human embryo that had stopped developing naturally, and so was considered dead. Using such embryos might ease ethical concerns about creating such cells, they suggested.
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Embryonic stem-cell research is polarizing America as much as George Bush and John Kerry. And the issue has become just as political.
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As election day draws near, stem cell research continues to draw public attention and prove its significance in swaying swing voters to both sides of the dead heat race.
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Rarely do the worlds of stem-cell research and Native American artifacts collide. But Dr. Michael D. West, the scientist behind Advanced Cell Technology Inc. of Worcester, has made it happen.
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Embryonic stem cells are contaminated with an animal molecule, meaning they could not be used to treat humans, say researchers.
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Scientists who incited controversy last month over a stem cell paper published in Nature now show their stem cells can repair damaged retinas. In Bodyhack.
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Naysayers argue that embryonic stem-cell research deserves no federal funding because it has shown no success. Neither have other heavily funded research programs. By Brandon Keim.
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Stem cell researchers continue to question Advanced Cell Technology scientists on their increasingly contested paper published recently in Nature.. In Bodyhack.
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A debate over an unproven hypothesis, which says cancers are fed by cancerous stem cells, could affect the direction of research.
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Making stem cells with destroying human embryos could revolutionize medical research in the U.S.--and help unlock the very secrets of life.
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David Brown&#39;s Dec. 4 front-page article, &quot;2 Stem Cell Options Presented,&quot; should be an eye-opener to those who believe in the separation of church and state.
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A proposal to spend &#36;3 billion in California state funds on stem-cell research is likely to attract scientists and create jobs, but some critics question whether the investment will pay off.
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Daniel Kerner's parents knew the experimental brain surgery was risky, but without it the 6-year-old surely would die. Last month in Portland, Ore., doctors for the first time transplanted stem cells from aborted fetuses into his head in a desperate bid to reverse, or at least slow, a rare genetic disorder called Batten disease. The so-far incurable condition normally results in blindness and paralysis before death.
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In an emotional session marked by tales of death and hope, the Senate debated on Monday whether the government should pay for new embryonic stem cell research, pushing a measure to do it toward passage and President Bush&#039;s first veto.
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Scientists working at a British laboratory have achieved one of the most controversial breakthroughs ever made in the field of stem cell science by taking cells from dead embryos and turning them into living tissue.
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Bush won. Thatâs the bad news for stem cell researchers. The good news: California&#39;s Prop. 71 passed. The science is already seeing the election&#39;s fallout.