University of Central Florida team patents stem cells advance: The University of Central Florida recently achieved another breakthrough in stem cell research, when a research team from its Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences patented a method of creating human stem cells—a way that bypasses ethical controversies as well as medical concerns. Because they are naturally [...]

U.S. scientists grow nerve cells from umbilical stem cells: What could be more tragic than a woman in her prime, trapped in a chronic, unpredictable and progressive disease of the central nervous system that causes her to suffer from constant pain, spasms and tremors, incontinence, constipation, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, anxiety, depression—and eventually, paralysis and [...]