The US biomedical funding agency also hints at future restrictions on research involving human embryonic stem cells.

NIH opens federal funding for 13 embryonic stem cell lines, will review 96 more. Dec. 2, 2009— -- The National Institutes of Health announced it will make 13 new embryonic stem cell lines will be ...

Haploid embryonic stem cell research explores the utilisation of cells that contain a single set of chromosomes to probe gene function with unprecedented clarity. This unique genomic configuration ...

T.J. Atchinson is first person with a spinal cord injury to undergo procedure. June 2, 2011 -- Dr. Donald Leslie, medical director at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, has high hopes. "We want to cure ...

The architecture of the body is not encoded as a formal blueprint; rather, it's the tightly orchestrated activation and ...

Scientists have uncovered a new way embryonic cells divide when conventional mechanisms fail. Cell division underpins all ...