On March 9, 2009, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to lift a ban on federal funding for embryonic...

A major challenge in developing stem cell-based cures for disease is maturing those cells into adult cell types that...

In 2006 scientists learned how to create a pluripotent stem cell out of a human skin cell. These cells, called...

Embryonic stem cells have the potential to help treat 70 or more diseases, but developing those new therapies will...

Huntington's disease (HD) is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder that typically strikes in a person's thirties and...

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nearly a million people in the U.S. No cure exists...

Antiretroviral therapy provides life-saving medicine to HIV-infected people but it is not a cure. Long-term exposure...