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WASHINGTON — With the active encouragement of the Bush administration, American scientists in the past year have developed several methods for creating embryonic stem cells without having to destroy ...

What do we intend when using the acronym STEM? It literally stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but what does it mean? Arguably, attempts to provide a meaningful response to ...

The word “niche” implies a specialized environment. But to Fiona Doetsch, the stem cell niche is anything but. For brain stem cells, “the whole organism is the niche,” Doetsch told the audience at the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In its zeal to ban a procedure used in embryonic stem cell research, a proposed constitutional amendment would also redefine the ...

Traveling to space is brutal on the body. Spaceflight can cause astronauts’ bones to lose density, their brain and eye nerves to swell, and their genes to change expression. Research suggests spending ...

Although controversial fetal stem cells hog the limelight, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which give rise to the entire adult blood system, quietly facilitate high-dose chemotherapy on a regular ...