U.S., U.K. officials meet on stem cells
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Leaders of national embryonic stem cell banks in the United States and the United Kingdom pledged Monday to work together to promote research, create international standards and more efficiently distribute each other's cells.
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Researchers at a U.S. company trying  to push the margins of stem cell research said on Friday they  had grown human embryonic stem cells using a non-controversial  method that did not harm the embryos.
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The prospect of using human embryonic stem cells to treat disease appears a small step closer as the result of two new experiments with the cells, which are mired in political controversy because they are derived from human embryos.
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The panel of experts that advises President Bush on bioethical issues heard descriptions Friday of two new laboratory techniques that may provide a way to get large numbers of medically promising stem cells without creating or killing human embryos.
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Two competing resolutions are put before members of the United Nations as they  debate the contentious issue of whether to ban cloning or to allow human embryos to be used for research.
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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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Aiming to circumvent President Bush's limits on the use of stem cells from human embryos, members of Congress on Wednesday introduced bills to allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
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President Bush, under increasing pressure to relax his restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, plans to issue an executive order today to encourage government agencies to support research that offers the promise of creating medically useful stem cells without destroying human embryos,...
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The Bush administration is aggressively seeking to include stem cell and other research known as therapeutic cloning in a ban on the reproductive cloning of human beings.
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British scientists are reportedly working on how they can use stem cells to treat cirrhosis of the liver. A team of researchers at London&#39;s Hammersmith Hospital are testing a process which uses the patient&#39;s
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Ontario and California will work  together to develop new stem cell therapies to help conquer  cancer, and will cooperate on curbing greenhouse gas emission,  the leaders of the two regions said on Wednesday.
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Scientists in Massachusetts said yesterday that they had created several colonies of human embryonic stem cells without harming the embryos from which they were derived, the latest in a series of advances that could speed development of stem-cell-based treatments for a variety of diseases.
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Mixing cells and eggs to be allowed in search for new medical treatments.
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Three teams of scientists said yesterday they had coaxed ordinary mouse skin cells to become what are effectively embryonic stem cells without creating or destroying embryos in the process -- an advance that, if it works with human cells, could revolutionize stem cell research and quench one of t...
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THIS summer marks the third anniversary of President Bush&#39;s announcement of his policy on stem cell research. In the intervening years, the subject has become a polarizing flash point for American politics and a focal point for the presidential campaign.
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A committee hears testimony on the possible usefulness of stem cells and current research restrictions, but it's an argument that boils down to when human life begins. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Hybrid animal-human embryos created for medical research should be viewed as human and permitted to develop into children, Roman Catholic bishops have urged the British parliament.