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- Legislator proposes NIH provide "ethical oversight" for all US stem-cell research
- Stem cell construction
- CIRM and the shape of stem-cell science
- Of in vitro meat and cloned drug-sniffers
- Stem-cell skin creams, a San Diego collaboratory, and legal blogs
- Mini-research round-up
- Cloning by reprogramming?
- Gearing for nitty-gritty questions on making safe products from embryonic stem cells
- Overview of FDA meeting on embryonic stem cells: cautious movement toward the clinic
- Meetings this week to help embryonic stem cells’ head for the clinic
- Diseased patients’ cells reprogrammed
- Brits report making hybrid cow-human embryo
- Recent editorial is meant to urge caution, not attack a scientist
- Therapeutic cloning helps mice with Parkinson's
- A new protein in the pluripotency circuit represses microRNA
- Patients paying for stem cells are probably getting bad science
- CIRM has a new scientific head
- Banking on the future of stem cells: Q&A with the head of the UK Medical Research Council
- USPTO upholds other WARF stem-cell patents
- Umbilical Cord Blood Companies in Asia
- Roche to test heart drugs on differentiated embryonic stem cells
- Round-up of research articles
- One of the WARF patents on human embryonic stem cells upheld
- Reader feedback: Blood and light, show more data
- Stem-cell researchers and stem-cell research advocates
- Cells reprogrammed to an embryonic-like state without viruses reported by press release
- Round-up of recent publications
- Former head of Bush council on bioethics says make embryos for research--in five years
- Hwang’s associates to clone dead pit bull for $150,000
- Adult cell types besides skin are reprogrammed
- Thickets and gaps blocking stem cell science
- More induced pluirpotency; Yamanaka's work reconfirmed
- Research highlight: Blood stem cells move with daylight
- CIRM receives grant applications from industry and academia
- Stem cell organizations react to Bush’s State of the Union speech
- Stem cells, state of the union, and funding
- Stem cells and state of the union: Bush vs. WARF?
- Blurring embryo-fetus distinctions disingenuous
- Euro- round up: human embryo cloner gets Spanish license; Germany reprograms
- Human-animal hybrids: both sides are half wrong
- Inconsistent Christian views on reprogramming
- Girl dies in stem cell trial for Batten's disease
- Chimeras are coming: UK allows animal eggs for human cloning
- More insight on human cloned blastocyst work
- Techniques for making stem cells from cloned and biopsied human embryos inch forward
- Reader response: Stem cell culture should consider not just dimensions but tissues
- Personalizing pluripotency
- Don't Give up on Embryonic Stem Cells
- Stem Cells Go to the Movies
- Pluripotency breakthroughs came from a Japanese lab, not US policy
- Q&A with Story Landis, head of the Stem Cell Task Force at the United States National Institutes of Health
- Oocyte-assisted reprogramming versus somatic-cell nuclear transfer
- Defining pluripotency in human cells
- CIRM continues to be dogged by conflict of interest allegations
- Pluripotency preening
- Shanghai stem cell conference promises more to come
- The business and bluster of reprogramming
- State Controller Recommends Inquiry in CIRM Board Conflict of Interest
- Human reprogramming changes everything, and nothing
- American monkey stem-cell work heading to UK humans
- Monkey stem cells cloned
- Stem cell patents may hold, even internationally
- Stem-cell policy detanglers
- Comments on an American Scientist in Iran
- My sister, the stem-cell line
- Stem cell student bloggers
- Nobel prize recipient needed embryonic stem cells to make knockout mice
- Renaming the Embyronic Stem Cell Registry recasts debate
- Australian head of California’s stem-cell institute could help globalize stem-cell research
- Britain gives go-ahead on chimeras. Will science now block the way?
- Stem cell scientists are on YouTube, but they're hiding
- CA stem-cell institute gets temporary president
- Hwang and virgin birth
- WARF patent case gets uglier still
- German ethics council: ease restrictions on embryonic stem cell research
- Surgeon General censored on stem cells
- Reprogramming breakthrough does not displace ethical debate
- Do induced pluripotent stem cells arise from skin stem cells?
- Reprogramming insights: in silico modeling suggests active dedifferentiation
- Asia-Pacific Stem Cell Network: Please post your thoughts
- Embryonic stem cells made without destroying embryos
- International stem cell society hopes to expand further from North American roots
- Prop 71 instigator to advise international stem cell society
- Oregon scientist reports first ES cells from cloned primate embryos
- Hwang's "clone" was really a parthenote, Daley reports
- Arrival in Cairns, Australia
- Benefit Science With English Help
- Insights to regeneration from the sea squirt-- an interview
- How can journals improve peer review of cloning papers?