Medical Research

Stem cells are a special type of cell that remain undifferentiated, meaning they have not developed into a specific type of cell. Embryonic stem cells are stem cells that have been removed from...

When a bone is discovered, it can be difficult to determine if it's from a human or an animal. If the bone is from a non-mammalian skeleton, it's easy to tell if the bone is human or not human,...

Human embryo cloning, also called "therapeutic cloning," is different that the conventional understanding of cloning. Scientists use human embryo cloning not to create another human, but to grow...

Cloning hit the mainstream as a scientific debate when scientists cloned a lamb named Dolly in 1996. Cloning is a process that results in an identical genetic copy of a biological product such as...

Studying embryonic stem cells educates researchers on human development. And it has the potential to prevent serious diseases, treat serious conditions, regenerate cells and provide an easy,...

According to the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2009, which was amended by the House of Representatives on January 6, 2009, cloning is found to be unlawful, unethical and immoral. Below are the...

First discovered more than 70 years ago, the study of the hormone-like prostaglandin has yielded advancements in almost every area of medicine. Ongoing research to better understand how...

Human growth hormone (HGH) is being advertised as one of the miracle drugs of this century. However, along with the touted benefits of using human growth hormone Injections, there are also many...

The Human Genome Project was a world-wide effort to identify, categorize and study the genes in human DNA, the chemical base pairs that are our genetic building blocks. It was a large-scale...

Ever since Watson and Crick first explained the structure of fundamental DNA, genetic scientists have sought to understand what role genes play in controlling human characteristics. This research,...