Human embryonic stem cells created via cloning

Embryonic stem cells have been created from human skin cells for the first time by US scientists using a cloning technique... [Read More]

Scientists skip stem cell stage to make myelin in mice

Skin cells have been directly converted into the types of cells destroyed in patients with myelin disorders like multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy in a pair of studies on mice... [Read More]

Multimillion-dollar grants for stem cell biobank

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in San Francisco, USA, has awarded two multimillion-dollar grants to Cellular Dynamics International in Wisconsin and Coriell Institute for Medical Research in New Jersey to generate and bank iPS cell lines.... [Read More]

Japanese pluripotent stem cell trial receives ethical approval

What would be the first clinical trial to use induced pluripotent stem cells has been granted ethical approval in Japan... [Read More]

Human stem cells treat nerve disorder in mouse study

Brain cells engineered from human skin tissue have successfully treated laboratory mice with a deadly nerve disorder with similarities to multiple sclerosis... [Read More]

Human kidney tissue successfully grown from stem cells

In what is thought to be a first, stem cells have been used to generate human kidney tissue... [Read More]

Safety of stem cells supported by mouse study

Tissue derived from induced pluripotent stem cells causes 'limited or no immune response' in mice, a study published in Nature has found... [Read More]

Immune cells to target cancer created from stem cells

Immune cells that can recognise and kill cancer cells have been grown from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)... [Read More]

Pee-brain: cells in urine converted to neurons

Scientists have converted kidney cells from human urine into brain cells, bypassing the need for embryonic stem cells... [Read More]

Drug companies and universities team up to create European stem cell bank

Ten drugs companies and 23 European universities will work to develop a stem cell bank that researchers will use in fundamental disease research and to test potential new medicines... [Read More]

Stem cells created from human blood sample

Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells have been created from a routine blood sample by researchers at the University of Cambridge in the UK, marking an improvement over existing experimental methods that require more invasive tissue biopsies.... [Read More]

£13 million investment for UK pluripotent stem cell database

The Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council have announced a £12.75 million investment to create a database of induced pluripotent stem) cells.... [Read More]

What Gurdon and Yamanaka's Nobel Prize means to the stem cell community

It took 50 years for the Nobel committee to acknowledge one of the key developments in biology... [Read More]

Viable mouse eggs made from stem cells

A team of Japanese researchers has created mouse eggs from stem cells and has fertilised them using IVF to produce baby mice. It is the first time scientists have reported producing properly functioning eggs using this type of stem cell.... [Read More]

EU research funding programme may not support embryonic stem cell research

The future funding of human embryonic stem cell research under the European Union may be in jeopardy after its inclusion in the next research funding programme is challenged by MEPs.... [Read More]

A break is not the end: pluripotent stem cell research gives insight on DNA damage disorder

The biological basis of a rare congenital disorder has been clarified, thanks to stem cell technology. The researchers say their work shows how advances in stem cell science can provide insights into genetic conditions... [Read More]

Book Review: The Epigenetics Revolution - How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance

In her new book, 'The Epigenetics Revolution', Nessa Carey argues that we are in the midst of the next great upheaval in biological thinking... [Read More]

Cambridge University opens Stem Cell Institute

The University of Cambridge is to open a new stem cell institute following an £8million investment from two of the UK's largest medical research funders.... [Read More]

Eye precursor and tiny liver grown from stem cells

Human embryonic stem cells have, for the first time, been used to grow a crucial part of the eye, a paper in Cell Stem Cell reports. It is hoped that in the future transplantation of such tissue could help visually impaired people recover their sight... [Read More]

EU urged to continue funding stem cell research

Six major UK research funding bodies have called for the continued funding of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research in the EU's programme for research and development... [Read More]