Dr. Richard Burt and colleagues at Northwestern University have just published a new study in The Lancet that provides more evidence for the
Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston have enrolled their first patient in a trial to use adult stem cells
Doctors at Northwestern University have shown that adult stem cells can relieve angina pain in heart patients.
A cancer patient has received the first synthetic windpipe transplant. The new windpipe was created using the patient's own adult stem cells
Jack Dolan of the Los Angeles Times takes California’s stem cell agency (California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, CIRM) to task for
For those keeping count, the NIH embryonic stem cell registry (the list of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines approved to receive federal
The reintroduction of a bill for federal taxpayer support of human embryonic stem cell research by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), co-sponsored
Adult stem cell researchers James Sherley and Theresa Deisher have filed their brief asking federal court to grant their pending motion for
Reuters is reporting that Advanced Cell Technology has enrolled the first two patients for its experiments on human eyes using injected embryonic
NIH Director Francis Collins has added two more lines of human embryonic stem cells to its Registry, bringing the current total to 93 lines
A new report published online in Nature describes how Stanford scientists turned mouse skin cells directly into nerve cells, without any intermediate
Scientists at Stanford report that they can turn human skin cells directly into functioning nerve cells in the lab dish. The process does not
The story of the “Berlin Patient”, Timothy Ray Brown, has popped up again in the news, as we approach the 30th anniversary of the discovery
Stem cell research continues to move ahead. Not embryonic stem cell research, however, which relies on the destruction of young human life.