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Court Puts Stay on Embryonic Stem Cell Research Ban

(Sept. 9) -- A federal appeals court decided today to temporarily lift the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research while it considers an emergency motion filed by the Justice Department. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled last month that government funding of embryonic stem cell research violated the...

Synthetic Blood Breakthrough: British Science Could Overcome Shortages

(Aug. 16) -- Synthetic blood, engineered using embryos leftover from in vitro fertilization (IVF), is one step closer to reality. That's thanks to a team of British scientists, who speculate that the breakthrough could one day yield 2 million pints of ready-to-donate blood each year. A team led by Professor Marc Turner...

FDA Greenlights Geron to Begin First Human Trials of Embryonic Stem Cell Treatment

(July 30) -- The Food and Drug Administration has cleared biotech firm Geron to perform the first human trials of a medical treatment based on embryonic stem cells. Patients with recently sustained spinal cord injuries will be the first to undergo the company's stem cell therapy, called GRNOPC1. The trial was initially...