Stem-cell promise awaits results
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BOSTONâAt three laboratories here, the world of stem-cell research can be captured in all its complexity, promise and diversity.
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Harvard University researchers said on Wednesday they were seeking permission to use cloning technology to make human stem cells.
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It was the kind of breakthrough scientists had dreamed of for decades and its promise to help cure disease appears to be fast on the way to being realized. Researchers in November announced they were able to turn the clock back on skin cells and transform them into stem cells, the mutable building blocks of organs and tissues.
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Cancer drug shows exceptional promise as it moves toward FDA review.
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The latest findings may expand the ways of generating customized stem cells for new treatments
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Stem cells have been used to save mice embryos from a lethal heart defect.
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Scientists have identified a cardiac stem cell that could be the basis for new heart therapies
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While many promising stem cell therapies are still awaiting approval for use in humans, vets are already using the technology to treat arthritis and tendon ailments in dogs and horses.
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In a leap forward for stem cell research, three independent teams of scientists reported Wednesday that they have produced the equivalent of embryonic stem cells in mice using skin cells without the controversial destruction of embryos.
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UK scientists hope to mend shattered bones and damaged cartilage using a patient's own stem cells.
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In a leap forward for stem cell research, three independent teams of scientists reported Wednesday that they have produced the equivalent of embryonic stem cells in mice without the controversial destruction of embryos.
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Transplants of insulin-making cells have not lived up to the promise they showed in an initial trial.
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Stem Cell Sciences, an Australian biotechnology company which recently moved its headquarters to Edinburgh, Scotland, is offering scientists worldwide, unconditional access to a new embryonic stem-cell line.
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WASHINGTON -- A procedure that encourages an egg to begin embryo development without being fertilized could suggest a new way to produce stem cells, at least for certain patients.
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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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New methods to reprogram adult cells could create novel models of disease.
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Scientists have discovered a new type of embryonic stem cell in mice and rats that should speed up research into regenerative medicine and help in the hunt for cures to a range of diseases.