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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The main focus in the lab is on the biology and application of human embryonic stem (ES) and human induced pluripotent (iPS) cells. Pluripotent stem cells can provide a truly unlimited source for ...

This allowed the researchers to explore how changing the gradient guided the embryoid – an aggregate of embryonic stem cells – toward distinct outcomes. They induced the stem cells to begin ...

the ISS team looked at how adult stem cells — another name for somatic stem cells — behave. Compared to embryonic stem cells (and the advantages associated with their research), they're more ...

For the first time, Oregon State researchers in the US have used cloning techniques to create human embryonic stem cells that could offer hope for conditions such as Parkinson's disease ...

On board the ISS, the team specifically looked at the behavior of adult stem cells, which are more limited in how they divide and transform compared to embryonic stem cells. Adult stem cells are ...