Embryonic Stem Cells Created Without Harming Embryo, for Real This Time
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Scientists have bettered an experiment they performed last year claiming to have derived "ethical" embryonic stem cells. This time they say they've satisfied critics.
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New procedure lets adult mouse cells mimic stem cells, bringing hope to anticloning activists.
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The latest findings may expand the ways of generating customized stem cells for new treatments
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The discovery that it is possible to create equivalents to embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos has the potential to reshape -- and perhaps defuse -- the acrimonious political debate that has raged ever since human embryonic stem cells were discovered in 1998.
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Scientists say they've created embryonic stem cells by stimulating unfertilized eggs, a significant step toward producing transplant tissue that's genetically matched to women.
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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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In a major breakthrough, scientists have 'reprogrammed' fully matured skin cells in mice, causing them to act exactly like embryonic stem cells.
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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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Embryonic stem cells, proto-cells that become the different cells in a baby, have a safety mechanism to prevent passing on damaged DNA, US scientists report.
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A way of 'tricking' eggs to divide without being fertilised may aid stem cell and IVF research, say scientists.
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New methods to reprogram adult cells could create novel models of disease.
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Forget genetic engineering. The new idea is synthetic biology, an effort to rewire the genetic circuitry of living organisms.
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A third team of researchers has found a way to convert an ordinary skin cell into valued embryonic-like stem cells, with the potential to grow batches of cells that can be directed to form any kind of tissue.
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Human therapeutic cloning has moved a step closer after U.S. researchers said they had successfully created embryonic stem cells from monkey embryos.
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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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Reproduction experts in Chicago might have an elegant solution to the explosive moral dilemma posed by embryonic stem-cell research. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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There is only one moral reason to support embryonic stem-cell research. Hereâs what it is.