Topic: Stem Cells

This Stem-Cell Cloning Breakthrough Is Going to Revive the Same Old Debate

A microscopic view shows a colony of human embryonic stem cells (light blue) growing on fibroblasts (dark blue) in this handout photo released to Reuters
REUTERS/Alan Trounson/California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Researchers in Oregon claim to have solved the tricky problem of cloning human stem cells, but you're more likely to see a duplicate of a years-old ethics debate — destroyed embryos or lives saved, Bush bans or Obama battles — than you are a duplicate human.

By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 3, 2012

Today in Research

An Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cells; Some Fish Can Handle Climate Change

Discovered: An alternative to embryonic stem cells, some fish can handle all that CO2, a photo of an atom's shadow, and the salmon aren't spawning so much anymore.

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By John Hudson

Jul 27, 2011

Stem Cell Ruling Renews Bioethics Debate

The White House and other commentators weigh in

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