A human embryo clone used in stem cell research. A novel embryonic stem cell therapy has apparently proved successful as a woman who has received the treatment for a severe heart failure has been reported “well” by doctors. The patient’s cardiologist, Philippe Menasche of the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, presented the positive results on Friday, saying she was doing “well”... 

Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka (L) and John Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan have won the 2012 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology for their research on stem cell. Both scientists were awarded for their groundbreaking discovery of changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body. The... 

British scientists have developed a new stem cell technique for growing working liver cells which could eventually avoid the need for costly and risky liver transplants. A team of researchers led by the Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge used cutting-edge methods to correct a genetic mutation in stem cells derived from a patient’s skin biopsy, and then grew them into fresh liver...