Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon, opening a new era for the potentially life-saving field. President Barack Obama lifted eight years of restrictions on ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government approved the first 13 batches of human embryonic stem cells on Wednesday, enabling researchers using them to get millions of dollars in federal funding as promised by President Barack Obama in March. The batches, known as lines, were made by two researchers at Harvard University and Rockefeller University using private funds, said Dr. Francis ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government approved the first 13 batches of human embryonic stem cells on Wednesday, enabling researchers using them to get millions of dollars in federal funding as promised by President Barack Obama in March. The batches, known as lines, were made by two researchers at Harvard University and Rockefeller University using private funds, said Dr. Francis ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Fat cells appear to slow the formation of new blood cells in bone marrow, and trimming them may be a new way to help cancer patients recover faster from bone marrow transplants, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. Scientists had thought that clumps of fat cells in bone marrow just took up space, but a team led by ...