“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

by Robert Lanza (Editor), Irving Weissman (Editor), James Thomson (Editor), Roger Pedersen (Editor), Brigid Hogan (Editor), John Gearhart (Editor), Helen Blau (Editor), Douglas Melton (Editor), Malcolm Moore (Editor), Catherine Verfaillie (Editor), E. Donnall Thomas (Editor), Michael West (Editor) New discoveries in the field of stem cell research have frequently appeared in the news and in …

For the first time, an experimental treatment made from human embryonic stem cells has shown evidence of helping someone, partially restoring sight to two people suffering from slowly progressing forms of blindness. Although the purpose of the experiment was to test the safety of stem cells injected into the eye, both patients “had measurable improvement …

A cover story on Robert Lanza in U.S. News and World Report summarized his remarkable life with these words: “[He] is the living embodiment of the character played by Matt Damon in the movie ‘Good Will Hunting.’ Growing up underprivileged in Stoughton, Mass., south of Boston, the young preteen caught the attention of Harvard Medical …