The US biomedical funding agency also hints at future restrictions on research involving human embryonic stem cells.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced a new NIH Request for Information (RFI) seeking public comment on the robustness of emerging ...

While outlining the ethical conditions for EU-funded human embryonic stem-cell research, a Commission advisory group has stressed that ethical differences of opinion on the issue have not yet been ...

Haploid embryonic stem cell research explores the utilisation of cells that contain a single set of chromosomes to probe gene function with unprecedented clarity. This unique genomic configuration ...

I've been going on and on lately about the adult stem cell partisans and what's wrong with their arguments. But underlying those arguments, I suspect, is something deeper. These advocates just don't ...

After a year of legal uncertainty, a federal judge ruled that U.S. taxpayer dollars can be used to support research on embryonic stem cells. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth dismissed a law suit ...

U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday issued an executive order that allows federal money to fund expanded embryonic stem cell research, which scientists say is "a great advance for science in general ...

Two teams of scientists will begin human embryonic stem cell research at the University of Nebraska Medical Center as soon as March, a start date marking the culmination of the scientists' lifes' work ...

Between 1998 and 2009, research being conducted using human embryonic stem (hES) cells expanded primarily using private funds because of restrictions on the use of federal funds for such research.

Can embryonic stem cell research ever be conducted ethically? That was the pledge President Barack Obama made when he lifted the restrictions placed on the use of embryonic stem cells by his ...