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Induced pluripotent stem cells appear to have the healing potential of embryonic stem cells without the controversy, but when given to mice, they didn’t survive the immune response.

The Obama administration can continue using federal tax dollars to fund human embryonic stem cell research, an appeals court ruled on Friday, overturning a judge's decision and handing a victory to the White House.

A part of the eye that is essential for vision has been created in the laboratory from animal stem cells, offering hope to the blind and partially sighted.

Cells grown in microgravity generate problematic proteins (absent in normal stem cells) that play a role in bone deterioration.

In a surprise result that can help in the understanding of both aging and cancer, researchers working with an engineered type of stem cell said they reversed the aging process in a rare genetic disease.

Scientists in Newcastle use a stem cell technique to repair the vision of a man partially blinded in an ammonia attack.

Scientists create a joint in the jaw from human adult stem cells, an advance which could revolutionize reconstructive surgery.

Pigs could soon become life-savers for humans thanks to recent findings in China, where researchers were able to turn ordinary pig cells into stem cells that can be used to treat a variety of ailments in people.

Several states move to block expanded stem cell research following executive order from Obama.

As President Obama lifted the ban on the Bush administration's limits on embryonic stem-cell research, he said scientific decisions must be "based on facts, not ideology."