Recent breakthroughs in stem cell research and artificial uterus technology have brought the possibility of creating human “bodyoids” closer to reality, potentially providing organs for transplants and revolutionizing medical research — but bringing a host of ethical issues with them.
Sen. Josh Hawley asked Kennedy if he would reinstate a policy from Trump’s first term barring providing taxpayer funding for NIH research programs that uses human fetal tissue derived from the body parts of aborted babies.
In a groundbreaking study, a 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes has started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells derived from her own body.
Scientists in Israel have grown a model of an early human embryo without using a human egg, sperm, or womb.
A research team reported Tuesday that a woman with leukemia has possibly been cured of HIV after receiving an umbilical cord blood transplant from a donor who is naturally resistant to the virus.
Leftwing media falsely claim treatments Trump was given for the coronavirus infection were developed using fetal tissue from aborted babies.
TEL AVIV – Israeli researchers said they have found a way to transform skin cells into the three major stem cell types that comprise early-stage embryos, with the next step being to create whole embryos without the need for sperm or eggs.
A shift from mouse models to stem cell research may have unlocked a new way to help prevent one of the world’s most tragic incurable diseases — Alzheimer’s disease.
