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France’s national bioethics committee has recommended the establishment of umbilical cord blood banks run on the basis of altruistic donation. The ethical committee’s experts believe su

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Harvard stem cell researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have taken a critical step toward discovering in the relatively near future a drug to control cystic fibrosis (CF), a fatal lun

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A controversial scientific conference which featured pro-embryonic stem cell researchers and was co-sponsored by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life has been cancelled, just a month bef

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An injection of stem cells given alongside a kidney transplant could remove the need for a lifetime of drugs to suppress the immune system, say scientists. Early tests of the technique at US hospit

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Euthanasia and research on human embryos are emerging as issues in this year’s Presidential election in France, with the two candidates differing sharply on these ethical issues.  Presid

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A new US study in which patients had their hearts repaired with adult stem cells has brought regenerative treatments for heart attacks a step closer. The therapy, reported in

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Swiss scientists have reported that transplantation of human placenta-derived stem cells into the brains of neonatal rats with birth-related brain damage is possible, and that the donor cells can s

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Skin cells have been converted directly into cells which develop into the main components of the brain, by researchers studying mice in California. The experiment, reported in Proceedings of th

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Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have shown that induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, can mirror the defining defects of a genetic condition—in this instance, Marfan synd

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An American university scientist has been arrested, accused of supplying stem cells for use in unapproved therapies. The US Department of Justice says Vincent Dammai, a researcher at the Medical Un

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