Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford.

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a gene critical for programmed cell death is also important in the loss of adult stem cells, a finding that could help to improve the health and well-being of patients undergoing cancer treatment.

Vital progress in stem cell research by hundreds of U.S. laboratories is threatened after last week's injunction prohibiting federal funding for the study of human embryonic stem cells .

Patients have threatened to sue a doctor after paying 10,000 for a stem cell treatment that did not work.

"A federal judge has blocked the Obama administration from funding human embryonic stem cell research, ruling that the support violates a federal law barring the use of taxpayer money for experiments that destroy human embryos ... "The ruling stunned scientists and other advocates of the research, which has been hailed as one of the most important ...

Health tourists travel the world and spend thousands, but their hopes of being cured are likely to be dashed Ampoules containing a medium for stem cell storage.