Stem Cell Research Cardiogenesis Corporation , released comments regarding the STAR-heart study.

The Wall Street Journal : "The two scientists behind the lawsuit that has temporarily blocked federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research said Wednesday they were motivated by ethical objections to destroying human embryos for medical research.

Female induced pluripotent stem cells, reprogrammed from human skin cells into cells that have the embryonic-like potential to become any cell in the body, retain an inactive X chromosome, stem cell researchers at UCLA have found.

As Congress prepares to return for a limited pre-election agenda, Rep. Diana DeGette said she has picked up wide support for her bill to permit embryonic stem-cell research and expects it will pass this month.

Construction on the UC Merced Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry is expected to be finished by late December, yet the university is still in the process of raising money for equipment.

In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University made a startling discovery. He found that when he introduced the genes for a set of four proteins into mouse skin cells, the cells became reprogrammed into ones that closely resembled embryonic stem cells.