HOUSTON – Since the 1990s, survival rates for people in need of a bone marrow transplant have improved dramatically and the method to become a donor has gotten easier than ever. Many would say the ...

New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

Stem cell IVF could enable same-sex couples and single parents to have genetically related children. It’s time to think ...

For the first time, researchers at the University of British Columbia have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important ...

They have been likened to the dot at the top of an “i” and to tiny soccer balls. Some see them as the beginning of life, others as building blocks for medical miracles and still others as medical ...

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...

Hundreds of embryonic stem cell lines, whose use in the United States had effectively been curtailed by the Bush administration, can be used to study disorders and develop cures if researchers can ...

One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...