By Saundra Young, CNN NEWS, October 17, 2014. Researchers say that human embryonic stem cells have restored the sight of several nearly blind patients – and that their latest study shows the cells are safe to use long-term. According to a report published this week in The Lancet, the researchers transplanted stem cells into 18…
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN, April 28, 2014. For the first time, cloning technologies have been used to generate stem cells that are genetically matched to adult patients. Fear not: No legitimate scientist is in the business of cloning humans. But cloned embryos can be used as a source for stem cells that match a patient…
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN, October 02, 2013. We’ve seen beating heart tissue, windpipes and bladders all grown from stem cells. Now researchers have taken another important step forward by growing mini brains from these programmable cells. They’re not actually functioning brains — in the same way that a car with the engine on its roof…
CNN, Aug 28, 2013. 16 photos: Photos: History of stem cells History of stem cells – In October 2014, a study showed that stem cells could help people with macular degeneration, an eye disease that causes progressive loss of sight. Researchers followed 18 patients for three years and saw no signs of rejected of the…
By Alice Park, TIME.com, May 16, 2013 It’s been 17 years since Dolly the sheep was cloned from a mammary cell. And now scientists applied the same technique to make the first embryonic stem cell lines from human skin cells. Ever since Ian Wilmut, an unassuming embryologist working at the Roslin Institute just outside of…
By Alexandra Sifferlin, TIME.com, May 01, 2013. Hannah Warren was born without a trachea but now has one made from plastic fibers and a stew of her own stem cells. The 2-year-old Korean Canadian has spent every day of her life in intensive care, kept alive by a tube that substituted for the windpipe that…
By Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer, January 08, 2013. The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a long-standing appeal from scientists who tried to block funding of stem cell research on human embryos. The brief order from the justices is a victory for supporters of federally funded testing to combat a range of diseases and…
Anderson Cooper 360, Source: CNN, May 19, 2012. A clinic in India claims its use in experimental stem cell therapy that’s banned in the U.S. works. Drew Griffin reports. Read More…
By David Fitzpatrick and Drew Griffin, CNN Special Investigations Unit, April 23, 2012. At 39 years old, Christopher John Nitkowski really has no business trying to pitch in the major leagues. In the harsh reality of professional sports, he’s a has-been. Just don’t tell him that. The former first-round draft pick last pitched for the…
CNN Newsroom, February 14, 2012. CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on a new stem cell therapy that might heal damage after a heart attack. Read More…