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Seoul, South Korea -- An international medical group has cleared a South Korean biopharmaceutical company in the deaths of two patients following stem cell procedures in other countries. "It is not our conclusion that stem cells killed these patients," David Audley, the executive director of...

After years of animal trials, the first human has been injected with cells from human embryonic stem cells, according to Geron Corporation, the company which is sponsoring the controversial study. "This is the first human embryonic stem cell trial in the world," Geron CEO Dr. Thomas Okarma...

New type of human stem cell is developed BOSTON, (UPI) -- U.S.-led scientists say they've developed a new type of human pluripotent stem cell that can be more easily manipulated than currently available stem cells. The researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Regenerative...