Heart surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub, who led the team, said doctors could be using artificially grown heart components in transplants within three years. Sir Magdi told the Guardian newspaper a whole heart could be produced from stem cells within 10 years. Stem cells have the potential to turn into many different types of cell. British scientists have grown part of a human heart from stem cells for the first time. His team extracted stem cells from bone marrow and cultivated them into heart...

This is attracting some of the very best people from biology, biochemistry and bioengineering and other fields to come into this sparsely populated field and bring with them all of their expertise, said Larry Goldstein, a human embryonic stem cell researcher at the University of California San Diego. The SEED grants were offered to researchers around the state who do not specialize in human embryonic stem cells but have some ideas of how the cells could be used to further their area of...

Conducting basic science such as this requires an appropriate medium, and embryonic stem cells are by far the best to use. In addition to the aforementioned neurological diseases, stem cell research has amazing potential to aid in the areas of cancer research and organ regeneration. By Ryon Graf The hurdles that currently inhibit embryonic stem cell research are irrational, illogical and a result of societys indecisive ethics. Fox is a champion advocate for stem cell research in Parkinsons...

The University of Minnesota is offering the Kreisers and couples like them another choice -- to donate their unused embryos for research on stem cells. Opponents of embryonic stem cell research say the process is immoral because the process of extracting the stem cells kills the embryo. A Roseville company, ReproTech, which provides long-term storage for embryos, also offers customers the chance to donate embryos to science, including stem-cell research. Embryonic stem cell research raises...

The man, now 41, suffers from type 1 diabetes, when cells in the pancreas do not produce insulin -- a hormone needed to store or use sugar. The pig cells were injected into the man's abdomen in 1996, which helped reduce his insulin requirements by 34 percent for a year, researchers from the biotech firm wrote in a paper published in the latest issue of the journal Xenotransplantation. The man insisted he still felt better in 2006 and convinced the company to examine him. This results in...

In January, he and his company, Aruna Biomedical, said they developed a way to create replicas of stem cells by the billions -- an upgrade from other labs that can produce the cells now by the thousands. The Georgia Legislature has so far sent mixed signals on stem cell research, an issue that is often tied up in ethical debates because to get human embryonic stem cells, scientists have to destroy embryos. The state's flagship university has spent millions of dollars on Stice's research...

When it comes to embryonic stem cells, you can find just about any opinion you like: They are an untapped elixir of life; they will lead to embryo "farms" where potential lives are snuffed out; they will cure all diseases; their potential is overhyped. Whether they deserve it or not, embryonic stem cells have come to represent potential salvation for many people suffering from incurable diseases. But it wasn't until 1998 that researchers managed to derive stem cells from human embryos. By...

The changes, made last August, prompted some researchers to complain that they could be prohibited from using some embryonic stem cells for their research. They said the changes also undercut a 2005 law, approved by the Legislature over Romney's veto, that they said would enhance the state's stature as a leading biotechnology and stem cell research locale. Scientists said they feared those rules would prevent them from using batches of embryonic stem cells from colleagues in states that...

Zanjani's human-sheep Chimera Scientists hope to be able to use animals such as sheep as proper organ donors for humans The University of Nevada's professor Esmail Zanjani has successfully created the world's first human-sheep chimera, comprised of 85 percent animal cells along with 15 percent human cells. Zanjani's human-sheep Chimera Scientists hope to be able to use animals such as sheep as proper organ donors for humans The University of Nevada's professor Esmail Zanjani has...