In a bid to harness the potential of embryonic stem cells, surgeons in California have implanted lab-grown retinal cells into the eyes of two patients going blind from macular degeneration. The procedures were carried out on Tuesday by Steven Schwartz, chief of the retina division at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the University of …

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by Robert Lanza (Editor), Robert Langer (Editor), Joseph P. Vacanti (Editor) The first edition of the book, published in 1997, is the definite reference in the field. Since that time, however, the discipline has grown tremendously, and few experts would have been able to predict the explosion in our knowledge of gene expression, cell growth …

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May 23 & 30, 2011 Stem cells from embryos may finally cure patients—reviving a bitter debate. By Sharon Begley Stem cells are taken from donated human embryos, then grown in a lab until they differentiate into cells that can treat macular degeneration. Stem cells, it seems, have become almost as ubiquitous in medicine as stethoscopes. …

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“Evolution Reigns But Darwin Outmoded” Robert Lanza and Deepak Chopra This article was published October 5, 2009 in: The San Francisco Chronicle The Hufffington Post Beliefnet Monday, October 5, 2009 This year, the world celebrated Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday. But now that all the backslapping is nearing an end, it may be time to reflect …

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Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ‘No’ Robert Lanza This article was published December 8, 2009 in: The Hufffington Post Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests …

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Stem cell breakthrough by Lanza and colleagues was voted the year’s top story, beating the Ebola outbreak, climate change crisis, entangled photons, cosmic inflation, as well as the year’s other science stories ranging from topics in space exploration to mathematics, technology, paleontology, and the environment. Stem Cell Success: A field long touted for its therapeutic …

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In New Method For Deriving Stem Cells, Viable Embryos. Biologists have developed a technique for establishing colonies of human embryonic stem cells from an early human embryo without destroying it Download the PDF

by Jose Cibelli (Editor), Robert Lanza (Editor), Keith Campbell (Editor), Michael D. West (Editor) Principles of Cloning is the first comprehensive book on cloning since Dolly the sheep was cloned. The contributing authors are the principal investigators on each of the animal species cloned to date and are expertly qualified to present the state-of-the-art information …

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Contemporary science asks us to believe that the entire universe – indeed the laws of Nature themselves – just popped into existence one day out of nothing. How can anyone in their right mind accept such a thing? We take physics as a kind of magic and don’t question that 14 billion years ago over …

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by Anthony Atala (Editor), Robert P. Lanza (Editor) Tissue engineering is a dynamic and rapidly growing field emerging from the cross-disciplinary efforts of engineers, physical and life scientists, and physicians to create new tissues and organs from cells and synthetic molds. Recent developments have led to a great expansion of clinical applications using tissue engineering …

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