Latest Stem cell laws Stories

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Stem Cell Action Coalition opposes Virginia House Bill No.1, the so-called Virginia "personhood bill." The Virginia Senate Committee on Education and Health is scheduled to take the matter up this week. The language of the personhood bill states, in part, that the laws of Virginia "shall be interpreted and construed to acknowledge on behalf of unborn children at every stage of development all of the rights, privileges and...

The human body is a mosaic of specialized cells that come together like pieces of a puzzle to create a beating heart, a conscious brain, sensuous nerves and the other tissues and organs. Amidst all of these specialized cells exist stem cells "“ each a blank slate full of potential for developing into pieces of the puzzle that is the human body.Fundamental propertiesAll stem cells have three fundamental properties. They are capable of renewing themselves, are unspecialized and can give rise...

WASHINGTON, March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, today called President Obama's executive order on embryonic stem cell research "a sad victory of politics over science and ethics." Under the order, for the first time in U.S. history, federal tax dollars will be used to encourage researchers to destroy live human embryos for stem cell research. Cardinal Rigali also cited a January 16...

On Sunday, a senior adviser reported that President Barack Obama will issue an executive order lifting an eight-year ban on embryonic stem cell research, which was imposed by President George W. Bush."We're going to be doing something on that soon, I think. The president is considering that right now," Obama adviser David Axelrod said on Fox News Sunday.Bush limited federal funding for stem cell research, in 2001, only to human embryonic stem cell lines that already existed. ...

Stem cell scientists in California say they're having trouble finding enough human eggs to conduct their research. California's Proposition 71, designed to fund $3 billions in stem cell research, prohibits paying women to be egg donors, the San Diego Union-Tribune said Monday. The human eggs, however, are needed in order to conduct the research. The people of California passed Proposition 71 to fund billions of dollars worth of stem cell research including (therapeutic cloning) and then the...

NEW YORK, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeoStem, Inc. , NeoStem, Inc., which is pioneering the pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need, announced today that it has closed on a private placement financing in the amount of $250,000. The funds will assist the Company in launching its adult stem cell collection network in the New York City market and increasing its research and development activities prior to receipt of the...

By James GrubelCANBERRA -- Australian politicians will push to overturn a ban on cloning stem cells for medical research after Australia's conservative Prime Minister John Howard said he would allow a conscience vote on the issue.The issue, to be debated in September, will stir deep moral passions among Australia's politicians and likely divide the ruling Liberal-National Party government soon after an internal revolt forced Howard on Monday to scrap tough new refugee laws."Putting a...

By Adrian Croft SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Britain is seeking to promote links between stem cell researchers in Britain and California, two leaders in the field, during a visit to the state this week by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, In contrast to the United States, where a stem cell research bill provoked President George W. Bush's first veto, Britain has strongly encouraged such research. It set up the world's first stem cell bank in 2004 to store and supply the cells for...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he used his first veto to block legislation expanding embryonic stem cell research. "It crosses a moral boundary," Bush said.

LONDON -- German scientists said on Friday they had isolated sperm-producing stem cells that have similar properties to embryonic stem cells from adult mice.If the same type of cells in humans show similar qualities the researchers from the Georg-August-University of Goettingen believe they could be used in stem cell research which would remove the ethical dilemma associated with stem cells derived from human embryos."These isolated spermatogonial stem cells respond to culture conditions...