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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." THOUGH THEY'RE CURRENTLY only approved to treat a small group of diseases, researchers are exploring a ...

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has submitted a formal response to a Request for Information (RFI) issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding its pause on new ...

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...

Researchers have succeeded in generating high-quality feline embryonic stem cells using sperm and eggs from testes and ovaries discarded during sterilization surgery. As different as they may seem, ...

A new platform for studying mtDNA mutations implicated in human disease could help accelerate treatments for mitochondrial ...