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As biological research races forward, ethical quandaries are piling up - Karl Zimmer
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‘This is such an important moment’: how stem cell research is transforming medicine
Such research has long been a game of potentials – treatments that could cure a host of incurable diseases or conditions, from HIV to certain causes of blindness to quadriplegia; research whose funding could get kneecapped by the whims of political power, treatments that could become available to the masses but are limited to select clinical trial groups.
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A new study shows stem cells can reverse MS in some patients. But researchers have questions
Some patients in a small trial who got stem cell transplants after chemo saw their quality of life and disability improve.
Controversial New Guidelines Would Allow Experiments On More Mature Human Embryos
For decades, scientists have been prohibited from keeping human embryos alive in their labs for more than 14 days. The prohibition was aimed at avoiding a thicket of ethical issues that would be raised by doing experiments on living human embryos as they continue to develop.
Grappling With the Ethics of Stem Cell Research
Can life be preserved at the expense of other life? The use of human embryonic stem cells presents a tight tangle of ethical questions.
Limits for human embryo research have been changed: this calls for public debate
Human embryo research is a sensitive topic because people are divided on the moral status of the human embryo. Some people believe that the embryo, as the earliest form of human life, should be protected and not subjected to research at all. Others believe that while an embryo has some moral status, it cannot be protected in the same way as humans are, and may be used for some important research which could ultimately benefit people.
Scientists Make Model Embryos From Stem Cells To Study Key Steps In Human Development
Scientists have created living entities that resemble very primitive human embryos, the most advanced example of these structures yet created in a lab. The researchers hope these creations, made from human embryonic stem cells, will provide crucial new insights into human development and lead to new ways to treat infertility and prevent miscarriages, birth defects and many diseases. The researchers say this is the first time scientists have created living models of human embryos with three-dimensional structures.
Stem Cell Therapy: A Potential Crohn's Disease Breakthrough in 2022?
Stem cell therapy may be a viable new treatment option for Crohn's Disease. Studies have shown that stem cells may be able to greatly improve patient symptoms without the exorbitant recurring costs of traditional medications.
The Healer
How Shinya Yamanaka transformed the stem-cell war and made everyone a winner.
The value of stem cells
Each and every day, scientists across the world conduct stem cell research that informs our understanding of the human body and how we approach medicine.
What lies behind the hype and the hope of stem cell research and therapy
In research, stem cells are at the cutting edge of science, with regular breakthroughs being announced in the field. By 2012, it was estimated that there were close to 100,000 active stem cell researchers across the globe. Massive funding is being directed globally into research which continues to provide hope to millions of patients.
Grappling With the Ethics of Stem Cell Research
Can life be preserved at the expense of other life? The use of human embryonic stem cells presents a tight tangle of ethical questions.
A New Form of Stem-Cell Engineering Raises Ethical Questions
As biological research races forward, ethical quandaries are piling up. In a report published Tuesday in the journal eLife, researchers at Harvard Medical School said it was time to ponder a startling new prospect: synthetic embryos.
A new study shows stem cells can reverse MS in some patients. But researchers have questions
Some patients in a small trial who got stem cell transplants after chemo saw their quality of life and disability improve.
Defining the Ethics of Stem Cell Research
There are some ethical issues in the sense some people believe one shouldn't do this sort of research. And there are ethical issues in terms of making sure that the women are adequately compensated, adequately informed about the risks that they might be taking and that informed consent and all those sorts of things are in place.
Masters of disguise
A clutch of new papers on stem-cell research has raised some awkward questions.
Potent medicine
Stem cells may transform the development of new drugs.
Science hype is too common. Stem cell researchers say it needs to stop.
What's refreshing about the new stem cell guidelines is that they acknowledge hype in science has become a real problem, take responsibility for the issue and empower researchers to do so, too.
The Case of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Fears that scientific breakthroughs might lead to a slippery slope, ethically or medically, shouldn't scare society into trying to prohibit controversial work.
The Stem-Cell Revolution Is Coming — Slowly
A Kyoto University scientist, Shinya Yamanaka, and his graduate student, Kazutoshi Takahashi, re-energized the field by devising a technique to “reprogram” any adult cell, such as a skin cell, and coax it back to its earliest “pluripotent” stage. From there it can become any type of cell, from a heart muscle cell to a neuron. The breakthrough sidestepped the embryo controversy, offering researchers an unlimited supply of stem cells.
Why the world needs to keep pace with breakthroughs in stem cell research
Stem cell therapy holds the possibility of curing a large number of diseases. However, almost all of these therapies are still in early development and clinical trial stages.
‘This is such an important moment’: how stem cell research is transforming medicine
A new documentary shines a light on the breakthroughs that are being made or are close to being made in finding cures to previously incurable diseases.
A Closer Look at Stem Cells
Learn about stem cell research and its potential to impact human health.
Stem Cell Research News
The latest Stem Cell Research News articles published daily. Includes news on stem cells - cells with daughter cells that may differentiate into other cell types. Includes research findings, different sources of stem cells, laws, and ethics.
Stem Cells Portal
The STEM CELLS PORTAL is an interactive, multimedia resource, designed to provide the global community of stem cell researchers common linkage among the many regional and international stem cell research tools, services, organizations, and learned societies.
Stem Cell Research & Therapy
Stem Cell Research & Therapy is the major forum for translational research into stem cell therapies. An international peer-reviewed journal, it publishes high-quality open access research articles with a special emphasis on basic, translational and clinical research into stem cell therapeutics and regenerative therapies, including animal models and clinical trials.
Stem Cell Science News
STEMCELL Science News has grown into a complete resource for the latest cell biology news and research, from organoids to immunology.
Stem Cells
STEM CELLS, a peer reviewed journal published monthly, provides a forum for prompt publication of original investigative papers and concise reviews. STEM CELLS is read and written by clinical and basic scientists whose expertise encompasses the rapidly expanding fields of stem and progenitor cell biology.
STEMCELL Technologies
STEMCELL Technologies is committed to supporting stem cell and many other areas of life science research worldwide by providing enabling research tools that are innovative, timely and of consistently high quality.
Americans for Cures
At Americans for Cures Foundation, our mission is to support fellow advocates in the fight for stem cell research and cures. We clarify key issues in breakthrough research
Bedford Research Foundation
BRF is a biomedical institute conducting stem cell and related research for diseases presently considered incurable. It does this four ways...
Embryonic Stem Cell Research News
EIN News is a leading online news monitoring service which has served millions of readers around the world since 1995.
International Society for Hematology and Stem Cells
Offering comprehensive programs and publications in training and eudcation, ISEH membership provides the tools for expansive understanding and cutting-edge methodologies from around the globe.
International Society for Stem Cell Research
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is an independent, nonprofit organization formed in 2002 to foster the exchange of information on stem cell research. Learn more about this exciting new organization.
New York Stem Cell Foundation
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering human embryonic stem cell research to advance the search for cures of the major diseases of our time.
Stem Cell Directory
Stem Cell Directory is a fully searchable, resource directory for the entire stem cell industry.
UK Stem Cell Foundation
The UK Stem Cell Foundation (UKSCF) exists to support the advance of pioneering stem cell research into medical practice.
American Society for Cell Biology
The Society's purpose is to promote and develop the field of cell biology. Its objectives are achieved through the scholarly dissemination of research at its Annual Meeting and Summer Meetings in its publications
New Scientist
Updated throughout the day, our global network of specialist correspondents provide comprehensive coverage of science and technology news.
NIH
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