In 2005, the National Academies released the book, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of ...

Bush's decision in August 2001 to permit federal financing for research on human embryonic stem (ES ... Gearhart brought the issue of government funding of stem-cell research to the fore.

In March 2009, President Obama issued an executive order intended to bolster human embryonic stem (hES) cell research in the United States. Despite this announcement, federal support and funding ...

As controversial as embryonic stem cell research can be ... noncloned embryos that are approved for U.S. federal funding. Now it is perfecting methods of turning those cells into the kind of ...

A new policy for how the National Institutes of Health will reimburse overhead costs associated with research grants could ...

Research that shows stem cells are found in amniotic fluid is good news for the future. The revelation made Sunday by researchers at Wake Forest University and Harvard University should quiet ...

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked ... "to express my strong opposition to these arbitrary cuts in funding for vital research" in the state. The vast majority of medical research ...

"In contrast to adult stem cells, there is currently no validated, successful patient treatment due to embryonic stem cells despite funding and research ... which provides federal funds for ...