A decade ago, Woo-Suk Hwang was a pioneering researcher at Korea’s Seoul National University, a puzzle solver who cracked one of the most dazzling challenges in modern biology: human somatic ...

Beyer is an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. As a pediatrician and a scientist-in-training, I conduct research on a critical ...

To solve this, scientists are looking at pluripotent stem cells—early-stage cells that can become any tissue in the human body. By leveraging these cells ... as ethically sourced biological systems ...

“We know much can be gained from studying the human body.” However ... and humanity at large begin to grapple with the scientific and ethical considerations of these potential biological ...