Much was promised in the late 1990s, but the challenge of advances such as growing whole human organs has been difficult to deliver, writes Simon Roach ...

UCI Health, the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine, has opened the world's first in-human embryonic stem cell-derived clinical trial for Huntington's disease.

Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Center for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome-editing technique ...

Between 1998 and 2009, research being conducted using human embryonic stem (hES) cells expanded primarily using private funds because of restrictions on the use of federal funds for such research.

An international team of experts in embryology and bioethics has published the first white paper on the use of embryonic ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed a new stem cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which replicates development of the tissues supporting the embryo from two to four ...

Researchers led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the University of Cambridge have used base editing in human embryos to learn more about human embryonic development. By deactivating a gene ...

A new study uses precise base editing on human embryos for the first time, proving the NANOG gene is the master switch for body development.

BALTIMORE -- Biotech executive C. Randal Mills flies a lot, and he's learned what to expect. Almost as likely as getting those tiny bags of peanuts or pretzels, someone in a neighboring seat will ask, ...

As a practicing physician for almost 30 years, I have witnessed many wonderful advances in the science of medicine. Indeed, many of the therapies that benefit my patients today on a routine basis were ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...