Bush's decision in August 2001 to permit federal financing for research on human embryonic stem (ES) cells using established ES cell lines. Stem-cell research has enormous potential value in both ...

Three human embryonic stem cell lines once eligible for federal funding are "on hold" until further notice because they were derived from embryos that were too early. Human embryonic stem cellsImage: ...

the nurse asks. Mom and dad, who have spent hours in prayer, nod yes, and a line of crimson wends its way down the tube, bringing the first of about 600 million cells into the boy's body.

Human embryonic stem cells accrue changes in their genomes that could make them unusable therapeutically when cultured at length, an international team of scientists report in the October Nature ...

It already has.” To justify this conclusion, she marshals two lines of evidence. She correctly notes that “progress is being made in the use of stem-cell therapies against cancer, blindness ...

ECTRIMS and EBMT said stem cell transplant can be considered for some with RRMS, such as those who are younger and have less severe disease.

In MS, immune system cells mistakenly attack myelin. With stem cell treatment, doctors use chemotherapy to destroy these existing immune cells. Then, they introduce the new stem cells, which are ...

New research highlights the promise of a novel stem cell treatment strategy for leptomeningeal brain metastasis (LBM), a ...