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YORKSHIRE, England, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A controversial transplant of stem cells derived from a human embryo may result in some vision improvement for three blind test subjects, U.S. researchers said.
LONDON, April 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher said a new cloning technique could be used by unethical scientists to develop a way to create designer babies.
WORCESTER, Mass., Jan. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers said they've found a way to create human embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryo.
MADISON, Wis., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reported they have reprogrammed skin cells to behave as stem cells by introducing four genes.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a cell found in amniotic fluid of pregnant women has many of the same traits as embryonic stem cells, the Washington Post reported.
WORCESTER, Mass., Sept. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say embryonic stem cells can slow vision loss when injected into rats suffering from a disease similar to macular degeneration.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. Sens. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Arlen Specter, R-Pa., are criticizing a scientist who says he created stem cells without destroying an embryo.
ALAMEDA, Calif., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have developed a technique to generate new lines of cultured human embryonic stem cells, leaving the embryo intact.
KYOTO, Japan, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Japanese researchers have been able to make adult cells act like embryonic stem cells, at least in mice.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Two teams of scientists say they have each devised unique methods to obtain embryonic stem cells without destroying a viable embryo.
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