Categoría: Stem Cells

With the Hwang Woo-suk fraud scandal of 2005 still fresh in their national memory, the government of South Korea postpones its verdict on stem cell research.

The company that had licensed 13 patents from NASA for the expansion of adult stem cells in a weightless environment has been acquired for $100 million.

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have solved the mystery of why some types of cancers are resistant to radiation.

At the intersection of nanotechnology and biology, scientists combine small-scale engineering with medical therapies.

In yet another indication of a globally stressed economy, and in yet another setback to embryonic stem cell research, the state of California has announced that it must delay the distribution of nearly $60 million in stem cell grant money.

Nearly 5 years after the controversial Proposition 71 was voted into law, and with very little concrete progress to show for it, scientists are reevaluating the field of embryonic stem cell research in California.