The Endless Frontiers Act, a comprehensive bill sponsored by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., passed the Senate on Friday, leading some critics to point to a little-noticed move that could open a ...

On Friday, watching pro-life Americans march for Life in our nation's capital, I was invigorated at the thought that our country has embarked on a new course, respectful of human life from the moment ...

It is striking just how little we know about human development, especially given we are now decades into the modern era of biology. How is it possible that we understand exquisitely well how worms, ...

Federal health officials said Thursday they are reconsidering a moratorium on the funding of research in which human tissues are transplanted into early, nonhuman embryos — creating organisms known as ...

In Greek mythology, a chimera is a figure with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. But the concept is not entirely imaginary. Human chimeras are people who have cells ...

Legislators should be careful that regulation of chimera research does not prevent life-saving research. The Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus briefed congressional staffers yesterday on ...

Scientists may be a step closer to growing human organs in animals. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is considering lifting a moratorium that blocked funding for experimentation involving human ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. If you needed an organ transplant, would you mind if it had been grown in an animal from human stem cells? Or ...

Scientists at Stanford University are urging the Obama administration to lift a funding ban on a type of stem cell research that results in partly human creatures called "chimeras." The research could ...

Federal health officials said Thursday they are reconsidering a moratorium on the funding of research in which human tissues are transplanted into early, nonhuman embryos — creating organisms known as ...