All the world is waiting impatiently with a hope, for a positive out come from the recent ongoing battle of whether or not stem cell research will lead us into the future of medicine.
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The embryonic stem cell research is likely to be free from the ethical controversy soon– such claim some researchers from the University of California, San Diego.

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Harvard University researchers have successfully found that the stem cell therapy can be used as a way to boost the body’s ability to replace or produce new tissues. Transplanting adult stem cells into mice with an illness like muscular dystrophy (MD) helped rebuild muscle structure and strength. Thus the study presents a prospect of similar treatments for people with the condition in near future.

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Human embryonic stem cells (HESC) are the cells which can transform itself into any other type of cells. This transforming ability has offered hope of producing human organs needed to replace when damaged due to injury or chronic disease.

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The researchers at Johns Hopkins have uncovered the molecular underpinnings of one of the earliest steps in human development using human embryonic stem cells. Researchers also say this element of stem cell biology is essentially human and something not applicable to the mouse or any other. The research is an outcome of the attempt to study a rare human blood disorder in the gene called PIG-A.

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UTX-JMJD3, a new gene family which controls the expression of genes crucial for stem cell maintenance and differentiation has been identified by the researchers at BRIC, University of Copenhagen. These results have been obtained by using both human and mouse stem cells, as well as by studying the devel-opment of the round worm, C. elegans.
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