Sentences with phrase «esc research»

But, ironically, this could never be verified or refuted, either, unless ESC research is allowed to progress with the same freedom as other cell research.

The shifting US political landscape should also help boost revenues for many companies investing in ESCs, if President Barack Obama expands federal funding for ESC research, says Brozak.

The injunction case was brought by two stem cell researchers who complained that NIH's 2009 ESC research guidelines violated the law.

Public opinion polls show significant support for limited kinds of ESC research (no cloning; no creation of embryos for research purposes).

Consequently, the safest investment in the ESC field may be «something where you're an enabler of the technology» by providing the raw tools and ingredients for ESC research, says Steve Brozak, an analyst with WBB Securities in San Diego, Calif. «The time frame [for ESCs] is now for drug discovery, soon for personalized medicine, and decades for therapeutic use,» adds Bob Palay, chairman and CEO of Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), a biotech company working with ESCs in Madison, Wisc..

And it is the position taken by many other nations that are active in ESC research but that also subject it to some limitations and to a transparent oversight system.

Right now is the perfect opportunity for the US government to finally put ESC research on a firmer legal — and moral — footing.

At first blush, these words, known as the Dickey - Wicker Amendment, might appear to prohibit government funding of ESC research altogether, because ESC research necessarily involves the destruction of human embryos.

NIH, under the Bush and Obama administrations, has supported ESC research on the basis of a careful and quite narrow interpretation of the Dickey - Wicker Amendment.

\ n \ nEthics can usually be established in a written and approvable form and certain uses of the output from ESC research can be limited or banned outright through this method of rule making.

Some people are completely opposed to ESC research, while others have no qualms.

Now, both companies are hoping to provide the gold - standard platform for all future ESC research.

Yet the US government has been funding some ESC research for nearly a decade.

But it makes one wonder what their priorities would be if the ESC research was able to give those self same opponents a second chance for a better life.

The Dickey - Wicker Amendment is passed annually, which means that every year US lawmakers have a chance to tweak the language so that it won't interfere with the country's ESC research program.

Another option is to enact legislation requiring the US government to conduct and support ESC research, which was passed by both houses of Congress in 2005 and 2007 but vetoed both times by President Bush.

\ n \ nThose who are morally opposed to ESC research will always recoil when public («taxpayer») funding is promoted.

The suit now goes back to the lower court, which must reconsider its rejection of the plaintiffs» request for a motion to block federal funding of ESC research.

Proponents of ESC research counter that most of the new cell lines could be derived from donated, unused human embryos created by couples seeking fertility treatment, and that more than a third of zygotes fail to implant after conception, so those would be lost by chance anyway.

Thus, ESC research necessarily depends upon the destruction of a human embryo.»

The Missouri Legislature funds life sciences, but carefully restricts its scope so as to not put taxpayer money into areas that would also require cloning or ESC research to be funded.

Current challenges facing ESCs research include ethical considerations and the development of robust efficient differentiation protocols to prevent teratoma formation upon transplantation into the patient's body.

Not exact matches

Refractory cardiac arrest patients brought to hospital with ongoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can survive with good brain function, according to research in nearly 4,000 patients presented at ESC Congress today by Dr Helle Søholm, a cardiologist at Copenhagen University Hospital Righospitalet in Denmark.

In 1998, scientists figured out how to derive human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) for medical research, and the method kicked off an intense debate.

In 2001, President George W. Bush limited the use of federal funds for research done with new ESCs.

Higher coffee consumption is associated with a lower risk of death, according to research presented today at ESC Congress.

Renal denervation seems to be more successful at reducing blood pressure in patients with resistant hypertension when it includes accessory renal arteries, according to research recently presented at ESC Congress by Dr Linda Schmiedel from Germany.

STEMI incidence fell in southern Switzerland after implementation of the smoking ban in public places, reveals research presented at the ESC Congress today by Dr. Alessandra Pia Porretta from Switzerland.

Smartphones can be used to detect atrial fibrillation with existing hardware, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2016 today.

Had Congress intended to limit the Dickey - Wicker to only those discrete acts that result in the destruction of an embryo, like the derivation of ESCs, or to research on the embryo itself, Congress could have written the statute that way.

Before Novocell pared down its research programs, it created a product for culturing human ESCs called StemPro, which it licensed to Invitrogen in August 2007.

A few months ago, research efforts led by Dr. Eran Meshorer (of Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University) and Dr. Miguel Ramalho - Santos (of the University of California, San Francisco) published findings that suggest that Chd1 regulates euchromatin in mouse ESCs (Gaspar - Maia et al., 2009).

0 Research ArticleRETINAL DISEASES Human ESC — derived retinal epithelial cell sheets potentiate rescue of photoreceptor cell loss in rats with retinal degeneration Karim Ben M'Barek 1,2,3, Walter Habeler1, 2,3, Alexandra Plancheron1, 2,3,

University of Wisconsin scientist, James A. Thomson, who first derived ESCs from embryos, has said «if human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough.»

The final group of stories is related to pluripotent stem cells: the discovery of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) in mice in 1981 by Martin Evans (it was a treat to see Evans, who won the Nobel Prize in 2007 for the research he discusses in the film!)

The excitement surrounding cellular reprogramming and the possibility of federal funding for human embryonic stem cell (ESC) research in the US could be overshadowing another promising therapeutic source of stem cells: those derived via parthenogenesis, some researchers say.

\ n \ nFinally I'll add that whether we're talking about ESC, iPS, or adult stem cells it's worth repembering that the threat does not only come from religious conservatives, animal rights activists are also campaiging to stop much of the research that underpins the whole stem cell field.

It has also developed the ESC Textbook of Vascular Biology, providing comprehensive information on vascular physiology, disease, and research

The Saab and Volvo earn the top rating of good for protection in front, side, and rear crashes, and both models include standard electronic stability control (ESC), which research shows can help drivers avoid crashes.

It engages automatically when it senses vehicle instability, and Institute research has found that ESC lowers the risk of fatal single - vehicle crashes by about half.

«We commend the agency for moving ahead with an ESC mandate for new truck tractors and large buses independent of its ongoing research on single - unit trucks,» McCartt says.

In 2006, Swedish research showed that ESC reduced crashes with personal injuries, especially serious and fatal injuries.

«We support NHTSA's decision to require ESC rather than roll stability control,» says Anne McCartt, Institute senior vice president for research.

«It's only relatively recently that research has shown the dramatic benefits of ESC in preventing crashes.

This addition is based on Institute research indicating that ESC significantly reduces crash risk, especially the risk of fatal single - vehicle crashes, by helping drivers maintain control of their vehicles during emergency maneuvers).

Recent Institute research found that ESC reduces the risk of serious crashes involving both SUVs and cars.

NHTSA's research indicates than an ESC system's ability to maintain an absolute lateral acceleration below the criteria would provide an acceptable probability that the vehicle would remain stable and that a level of absolute lateral acceleration above the criteria would result in a high probability of the vehicle becoming unstable.

Based on NHTSA's research, for a typical combination vehicle, an ESC system must reduce the heavy vehicle's lateral acceleration to less than 0.4 g to prevent wheel lift and possible vehicle rollover.

IIHS, for example, cited its own research suggesting that having ESC systems on all truck tractors could prevent as many as 295 fatal crashes each year.