(Reuters) - President Barack Obama will sign an executive order on Monday lifting some restrictions on the use of federal taxpayer money to work with human embryonic stem cells. [nN08408124] Following ...

After a year of legal uncertainty, a federal judge ruled that U.S. taxpayer dollars can be used to support research on embryonic stem cells. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth dismissed a law suit ...

Aug 23 (Reuters) - A U.S. district court stopped federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research on Monday, a challenge to the Obama administration's new guidelines on the sensitive issue that ...

A team of stem cell scientists have successfully used embryonic stem cell engineering to create a bi-paternal mouse—a mouse with two male parents—that lived until adulthood. Their results, published ...

A study published in Cell Research advances a central idea in stem cell biology by identifying a checkpoint that controls the ...

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.

Haploid embryonic stem cell research explores the utilisation of cells that contain a single set of chromosomes to probe gene function with unprecedented clarity. This unique genomic configuration ...

A number of prominent pro-life conservatives, including Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch and former Florida Sen. Connie Mack, have recently voiced their support for federal funding of human stem cell research.

Two teams of scientists will begin human embryonic stem cell research at the University of Nebraska Medical Center as soon as March, a start date marking the culmination of the scientists' lifes' work ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...