The world remains in serious disarray over stem cells. The spotlight this week has been on the US, where Congress unfortunately failed to override the first veto of George W. Bush's presidency;

George Bush was poised today to overrule senior Republicans, along with the vast majority of Americans, by using his presidential veto for the first time to defeat a bill on stem cell research. The

President George W. Bush renewed his threat to use his first veto on legislation set to be approved by the Senate that would expand federally funded research using embryonic stem cells. The looming

The U.S. Senate is expected to approve a measure to broaden federally funded research on embryonic stem cells. But some government officials and scientists say the strict limits imposed by the Bush

The US Senate approved legislation to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, clearing the way for President George W. Bush to use his veto power for the first time since he took

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Evolution

Australian scientists say they've solved one of the DNA mysteries surrounding the way in which cells divide and replicate themselves. For more than 20 years scientists have tried to understand the