There is a huge unmet medical need in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), with many neurologists believing that without effective therapies, most patients will never be able to come off disease ...

All lines of human embryonic stem cells approved for research by the federal government are useless for medical treatments, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine.

Researchers chafing under President Bush's restrictions on human embryonic stem-cell research will have free access to 17 new cell lines provided by a team of academic scientists. The new lines were ...

Scientists from the Jackson Laboratory (JAX) have described how they combined stem cells from eight different mouse strains to create a model for studying neurological conditions that better mimics ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pluristyx, a leading provider of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), cutting-edge, induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technologies, today announced the immediate ...

A team of researchers in China has reported for the first time the live birth of a monkey that contains a high proportion of cells derived from a monkey stem cell line. This “chimeric” monkey is ...

Two groups at Harvard University have announced that they have received approval to start human-cloning research designed to create lines of embryonic stem cells to study and treat diseases. “We are ...

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allowed a contract for the dissemination of embryonic stem cell lines approved for US government funding to lapse, shuttering a key stem cell bank, and ...

THE SWIRL of controversy that greeted President Obama's executive order lifting the ban on federal funding of stem cell research in March didn't make a significant ...