Stem Cells

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Will pigs usher in the next medical revolution?

Peter Cowan | 14 December 2011 |

tags: organ donation, stem cells, xenotransplantation

Transplanting organs from pigs could be the answer to the shortage of organs for desperately ill patients.

Non, je ne regrette rien

Michael Cook | 24 November 2011 |

tags: stem cells

It is now all but certain that human embryonic stem cells will not deliver cures to dread diseases. Apologies, anyone?

A setback for embryonic stem cell research

Michael Cook | 21 October 2011 |

tags: European Union, human ecology, stem cells

A milestone case in the European Court of Justice may signal a new direction in campaigns against human embryo research.

Most medical research is wrong? Are you kidding?

Michael Cook | 22 November 2010 |

tags: science, stem cells

No. In fact, the leading figure in medical statistics says plainly, “most claimed research findings are false”.

Landmark stem cell trial begins

Patrick Cusworth | 15 October 2010 |

tags: stem cells

A US company has announced that it has begun a clinical trial with embryonic stem cells in the hope of curing spinal cord injuries. Ho hum.

Stem cell tears

Michaela Kingston | 14 September 2010 |

tags: Barack Obama, science, stem cells

Will researcher have to look for other jobs now that federal funding for human embryo research in the US may dry up?

Upsetting the stem cell applecart

Michael Cook | 26 August 2010 |

tags: stem cells, US

Have two US presidents and a raft of agencies been misinterpreting a federal law for nearly ten years? A judge says Yes.

Consternation in Barad-dûr

Michael Cook | 04 April 2008 |

tags: California, stem cells

An ethical development could make embryonic stem cell research obsolete and derail plans for California's $3 billion institute.

Harvard’s stem cell misstep

James Sherley | 29 June 2006 |

tags: stem cells

Harvard University has given the cause of therapeutic cloning the backing of its immense prestige. A stem cell scientist tells MercatorNet that this is based on inflated hopes and bad science.

To clone or not to clone

James Sherley | 07 December 2005 |

tags: stem cells

Whether or not embryos should be cloned and then destroyed for their stem cells has been one of the hottest issues in science this year. James Sherley, a professor at MIT, says that the use of cells from cloned embryos is scientifically and ethically dubious.

Cloning pioneer hits the wall

Michael Cook | 30 November 2005 |

tags: cloning, Hwang Woo-suk, Korea, stem cells

A Korean national hero has confessed that he told lies about his research about cloning human embryos. Will his colleagues 'fess up, too?

False dawn for stem cell cures

Michael Cook | 27 May 2005 |

tags: fraud, Hwang Woo-suk, Korea, stem cells

The sick and the scientists are rejoicing over two different visions of the future after the cloning of human embryos by Korean scientists.