If Rip van Winkle had just awoken from a slumber that started five or six years ago, the current political debate over human embryonic stem cell research would seem bewildering. Both sides make ...

Learn more about the National Academies’ various programs designed to connect, engage, and inspire. In 2005, the National Academies released the book, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research ...

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a unique genetic mechanism that provides cells with rapid and efficient protection against viruses. The findings could lead ...

are pluripotent stem cells generated from adult cells by reprogramming. iPSCs have the same properties as embryonic stem cells, and therefore self-renew and can differentiate into all cell types ...

For example, red blood cells look very different from nerve cells, but they both start out as embryonic stem cells. Adults don't have any embryonic stem cells, but they do still have stem cells ...

A research group from Nagoya City University has elucidated the significance of birth in the maintenance of neural stem cells ...

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 ...

This important study reveals a role for IκBα in the regulation of embryonic stem cell pluripotency. The solid data in mouse embryonic stem cells include separation of function mutations in IκBα to ...

Advocates counter that adult stem cells, useful as they may be for some diseases, have thus far proved incapable of producing the full range of cell types that embryonic stem cells can.

During the development of the olfactory epithelium (OE), olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) express only one member of the odorant receptor (OR) gene family, and O ...