A coalition of anti-abortion legislators is calling for an end to human embryonic stem cell research at the National ...

Stem cell research holds enormous potential for treating disease, but it also raises deep ethical questions—especially when human embryos are involved. Recent debates have reignited calls to shift ...

Embryonic stem cell (ESC) research holds the potential to completely revolutionize the world of regenerative medicine, yet it is often met with ethical resistance. Here I would like to argue that ...

Last week, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PhD, professor at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge, announced that her research group created a synthetic human embryo model ...

Just as the world learns that researchers in South Korea have successfully extracted stem cells from cloned embryos, Congress is considering a bill to expand the use of federal funds to harvest stem ...

Yesterday, world-renowned scientist Woo Suk Hwang said he would quit his post at the helm of South Korea's major new center for embryonic stem cell research. Scientific research should be conducted ...

In April, researchers in China reported that they had initiated pregnancies in monkeys through a procedure seemingly much like in vitro fertilization (IVF), in which embryos created in a dish were ...

Among the topics that Republican incumbent George W. Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry have debated during the presidential campaign, embryonic stem cell research stands out as one of the ...

The images are unsettling, to put it mildly: a baby monkey whose skin grows eerily green, with glowing fingertips reminiscent of E.T. This is “#10,” the world’s first live-born monkey that’s largely ...

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.