Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of ...

Stem cells, renowned for their transformative medical potential, are not universally the same or equally effective in treatments. There are three main types: adult, embryonic, and induced pluripotent.

Bush voiced support for limited federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, several members of Congress vowed to push forward proposals that go further than Bush's plan. In a nationally ...

Stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs) are three-dimensional biological structures that mimic aspects of early human embryo development. They can be created in the lab from stem cells, and can provide ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development—including the production ...

Scripps Research neuroscientist Giordano Lippi is the recipient of a $4 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to study haploinsufficiency, a condition where only ...

Liver cells are indispensable for research—for drug testing, to better understand diseases such as hepatitis, fatty liver, ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican bioethics document Friday condemned artificial fertilization and other techniques used by many couples and also said human cloning, "designer babies" and embryonic ...

BioLamina CEO Klaus Langhoff-Roos discusses the challenges of scaling stem cell production from lab plates to bioreactors, ...

Clusters of cells grown in the lab have been encouraged to produce human blood stem cells in a discovery that could one day ...