Embryonic stem cell (ESC) research holds the potential to completely revolutionize the world of regenerative medicine, yet it is often met with ethical resistance. Here I would like to argue that ...

An Aug. 11 article about stem cells misspelled the name of National Institutes of Health official Lana Skirboll. (Published 8/13/01) For all the restrictions President Bush imposed on federal funding ...

Just as the world learns that researchers in South Korea have successfully extracted stem cells from cloned embryos, Congress is considering a bill to expand the use of federal funds to harvest stem ...

Those who call themselves pro-life and still do not support stem cell research in light of breakthrough discoveries that circumvent ethical concerns are behaving against their purpose. It make little ...

To the editor: Amendment 2, the so-called Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, is a deceptive proposal that would establish a constitutional right to clone and destroy human embryos for research ...

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In one sense, there's nothing really new about the issue of using human embryonic stem cells for biological research. It's not that people have confronted the implications of such research before; ...