In my previous post I detailed how devastating it is to the embryonic stem cell industry that Geron Corporation has abruptly abandoned it. Now only one other U.S. company, Advanced Cell Technology, is running a clinical trial using embryonic stem cells with the hope of a commercial payoff.

Out of nowhere Geron Corporation announced last week it was not only halting the first clinical trial of embryonic stem cell treatment on humans but getting out of the embryonic stem cell business altogether. To understand how big a blow to the embryonic stem cell industry this was, you first must know it was Geron […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, is still trying to sell himself as a pro-life candidate to primary voters despite

by National Review, Robert George, Patrick Lee and Maureen Condic respond to

by CBS station has already covered the release of Lila Rose’s latest undercover tape and received a statement from someone at the sheriff’s office and Planned Parenthood. The

by The Raving Theist examines a pro-choice blogger’s horror that the child born alive at a FL abortion clinic was stuffed inside a plastic bag to die: Horrified, again, that the baby was suffocated in a medical waste bag rather than chopped up in the womb two minutes before being stuffed into a medical waste […]

by have now created induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells by “using strands of genetic material, instead of potentially dangerous genetically engineered viruses, to coax skin cells into a state that appears biologically identical to embryonic stem cells”: In addition to the scientific implications, the work comes at a politically sensitive moment. Scientists are anxiously waiting […]