HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese researchers have managed to create powerful stem cells from mouse skin and used these to generate fertile live mouse pups.

They used induced pluripotent skin cells, or iPS cells — cells that have been reprogrammed to look and act like embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells, taken from days-old embryos, have [...]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Improvements in cancer screening and better treatments have resulted in steady declines in cancer death rates over the past three decades, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

They said younger adults — those aged 35 to 45 years old — have experienced the steepest declines in cancer death rates, but all age groups have [...]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. researchers get initiate a chemical that can conclusion helping somebody turning cells — a sympathetic of belligerent sign cadre that resists square handling and may justify why many cancers produce back.
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(Reuters) – The U.S. National Institutes of Health released final rules on Monday governing federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.
Following are some facts about stem cells:
* Stem cells are the body’s master cells, the source of all cells and tissue, including brain, blood, heart, bones and muscles.
* Embryonic stem cells come from days-old [...]

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean prosecutors told a Seoul court on Monday they wanted a four-year prison term for disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk, whose research team has been linked to major fraud in its once-celebrated stem cell studies.

Hwang, once a scientist with rock-star like status in South Korea for his research that brought the country [...]