Those who call themselves pro-life and still do not support stem cell research in light of breakthrough discoveries that circumvent ethical concerns are behaving against their purpose. It make little ...

Just as the world learns that researchers in South Korea have successfully extracted stem cells from cloned embryos, Congress is considering a bill to expand the use of federal funds to harvest stem ...

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 ...

In one sense, there's nothing really new about the issue of using human embryonic stem cells for biological research. It's not that people have confronted the implications of such research before; ...

Among the topics that Republican incumbent George W. Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry have debated during the presidential campaign, embryonic stem cell research stands out as one of the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A body that advises the German government on medical ethics on Monday recommended changing the law to make stem cell research easier, a view that could boost the chances of new ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...