Complex tissue structure – a first – offers hope to millions with degenerative eye disorders.

Study supports expansion of first human trial to include those with cervical spinal cord damage.

By CARLA MCCLAIN A top scientist using stem cells from human embryos to cure disease and repair injuries will proceed with his work, he said in Tucson on Tuesday, despite a recent breakthrough showing the controversial embryos may no longer be needed.

U.S. scientists have launched a project to develop stem cell lines that genetically match human patients.

By Gary Robbins, The Orange County Register, Calif. Jul. 5--Famed Newport Beach bond trader Bill Gross is donating $10 million to UC Irvine to support human embryonic stem-cell research at a campus that's competing hard to become a mecca in the young and controversial field.