Sentences with phrase «human embryonic stem cells remain»

«Human embryonic stem cells remain the gold standard for pluripotency,» Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said at the hearing.

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But though stem cell research in general is booming in Germany, the political implications of human embryonic stem cell research remain unresolved.

Differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs)-RRB- may be a useful strategy to create the supply to meet the high demand, although this currently remains inefficient or includes the use of xenogeneic and undefined reagents.

But for well over a decade now, ethically contentious human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) has notably failed to live up to all its hype, with promises of miracle cures within «five to 10 years» remaining unfulfilled.

Thomson will be in Santa Barbara only part - time - he remains a tenured senior faculty member at the University of Wisconsin at Madison where, in 1998, he first isolated human embryonic stem cells.

However welcome the recent announcement that a team of scientists based at Newcastle University, has grown a section of human liver using stem cells from umbilical cords, rather than from the more controversial source of embryonic stem cells, and whatever the eventual promise or potential of harvesting organs for transplantation from genetically modified pigs, the benefits of either of these two pioneering techniques to currently dying / suffering patients, remain both elusive and distant.