The US debate on human cloning has been complicated in the past week by the disclosure
that researchers at the University of Minnesota have cultured stem cells, which the …

A team of South Korean researchers has managed to generate more than 30 human
blastocysts and a single human embryonic stem cell line using the technique of nuclear …

Britain has taken a further step towards establishing itself as the world leader in embryonic
stem (ES) cell research by extending regulations permitting research on ES cells and cells …

German researchers will be able to use hundreds more human embryonic stem-cell lines
following a vote in parliament to amend the country's controversial stem-cell law. This law …

Discusses the ethics of creating programmed stem-cell donors. Example of a situation in
which a child was conceived in the hope of providing a transplant to help an older child with …

To make'clinical-grade'cells, scientists produced them without the use of any of the animal
cells or products typically needed, and did so under certified manufacturing conditions. They …

Stating that embryonic stem-cells carry both “great promise and great peril”, US President
George W Bush announced on Aug 9 his support for limited federal funding for embryonic …

The British government is launching the world's first embryonic stem cell bank, which will
collect, manage, and supply" ethically approved," quality-controlled existing and new stem …

The Brazilian Supreme Court reapproved the Biosafety Bill, six votes to five, on May 29,
2008. The bill, which allows extraction of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) from surplus …

The White House continued to search last week for a politically respectable way out of the
stem-cell controversy. But so far—with a presidential announcement reportedly postponed …