WASHINGTON -- Cells extracted from a human embryo have been nurtured into tiny blood vessels, a key step toward someday using embryonic stem cells to aid ailing hearts or fix blocked arteries, ...

A team of researchers has reported a breakthrough in making sperm cell precursors in vitro that could be used in a number of ...

WASHINGTON -- Supporters of research using embryonic stem cells are pointing to two new endorsements as they urge President Bush to allow federal funds for the work. A federal health research report ...

Weren't research groups having good luck with umbilical stem cells, doing this a few years ago? To me, using those cells makes a lot of sense to use because there is a large potential supply and not ...

The government issued final rules Monday expanding taxpayer-funded research using embryonic stem cells, easing scientists’ fears that some of the oldest batches might not qualify and promising a ...

Cindy Tian of the Department of Animal Science in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources works in her lab in the Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory (ABL). Oct. 19, 2022.

The ethical and legal concerns regarding the use of cells from human embryos cannot be ignored. However, so much attention has been paid to these issues that an understanding of the state of the ...

The discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic development sheds light on the preliminary stages of human placenta formation. A team led by scientists from the University of California San Diego ...

To the editor: I must take particular issue with some statements made by Dr. Michael Wulfers in a recent column. Wulfers suggests that adult stem-cell research is an alternative to embryonic stem-cell ...