If Rip van Winkle had just awoken from a slumber that started five or six years ago, the current political debate over human embryonic stem cell research would seem bewildering. Both sides make ...

Scientists have long dreamed of plucking those naive cells from a young human ... clinics and establishing the world's first human embryonic stem cell line, he and other scientists got a lot ...

Learn more about the National Academies’ various programs designed to connect, engage, and inspire. In 2005, the National Academies released the book, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research ...

These are found in an early embryo. These cells are able to divide continuously. Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent. This means that all of the genes in an embryonic stem cell can be expressed ...

This important study reveals a role for IκBα in the regulation of embryonic stem cell pluripotency. The solid data in mouse embryonic stem cells include separation of function mutations in IκBα to ...