Welcome to Lab Dish, a First Opinion column on regenerative medicine from Paul Knoepfler. Twenty years ago, the use of human embryonic stem cells in research was among the most fiercely debated topics ...

After months of deliberations, President Bush will announce his decision tonight (August 9) on whether to allow federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Watching with interest will be Calvin ...

Nov. 23, 2004 — -- Much has been made of President Bush's 2001 executive order limiting the use of federal funds for human embryonic stem-cell research. With Bush now slated for another four ...

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has approved a $2.7 million grant to fund a stem cell research facility at UC Santa Cruz. The facility will be shared by UCSC researchers ...

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, ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- During roughly the past four decades, American colleges and universities have awarded more than 2 million bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in the biological sciences, ...

Thyroid development represents a complex orchestration of cellular migration, differentiation and folliculogenesis, all of which are tightly regulated by an interplay of signalling pathways and ...

The lack of a federal policy on human embryonic-stem-cell research–beyond the Bush Administration’s restrictions on funding–has left plenty of room for the states to seize the scientific initiative.

Chimpanzee naive pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can now be grown in cellular cultures, reveals a recent study. They successfully created chimpanzee early embryo models, called 'blastoids,' and found ...