Lost in all the bashing of Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) for giving the impression it had created a human embryonic stem cell line without destroying the embryos from which they were derived (it had actually destroyed 16 embryos to prove the principle) is the vital fact that they have shown it can be done, and […]

The bad news was breaking soon after we published the last issue of the Digest, so it’s a bit dated but too important not to mention here that, with the exception of a cloned dog (no mean feat), the stem cell breakthroughs to which Hwang Woo-suk attached his name and reputation were a fraud. Whether […]

Population aging means heart disease could be a growing burden on healthcare systems the world over, but not if stem cell therapies currently in various stages of development are fully validated and become widely accessible. And the breakthroughs keep on coming. “Labs-on-a-chip” are contributing to stem cell therapy research, stable and pure nerve cells (needed […]

Acceleration in the number of news stories about stem cell therapies and related issues warrants a section to itself this month. The looming elderly boom will overwhelm society’s ability to care for them as they deteriorate. Either we let them rot, or we delegate the task to robots, or we find ways to halt, retard, […]