NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson’s disease and diabetes. A ...

A claim by a fringe religious group last month that it had created the first human baby through cloning has renewed calls for a ban on the cloning of human cells. But research advocates worry that ...

American biomedical researchers were reeling on Thursday after hearing reports from South Korea that members of a top team of scientists there had admitted to fabricating at least part of a landmark ...

New research indicates that a rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta), cloned using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), has successfully survived for over two years. The cloning of rhesus monkeys may ...

A team of researchers said Wednesday that it had produced embryonic stem cells -- a possible source of disease-fighting spare parts -- from a cloned human embryo. Scientists at the Oregon Health and ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks reached a confidential settlement on Monday with a biotech firm who they accused of unjustly profiting from the Baltimore woman’s cells for more than 70 years. The 2021 ...

Pluripotent stem cells hold promise for transplantation therapy to treat degenerative diseases, but isolating a patient's stem cells may pose a technical limitation. In the April 27 Science, Wakayama ...

Eleven black-footed ferrets were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo facility in Virginia, marking a big step in cloning ...

Two research groups have independently produced human embryonic stem-cell lines from embryos cloned from adult cells. Their success could reinvigorate efforts to use such cells to make ...