A new study confirms a seemingly obvious assumption
about human embryonic stem cell research: Countries with fewer restrictions on research outperform countries with more restrictions.
Frequently lost in the policy discussions
about human embryonic stem cells research are concrete realities that will determine how quickly such research will result in treatments and cures.
Not exact matches
Just before Thanksgiving, news broke
about a new
stem -
cell technique that could produce the equivalent of
embryonic stem cells (ESCs) but without using or destroying
human embryos.
Peter Tatchell,
human rights campaigner, talked
about Catholic dissent from the Pope's hardline, intolerant opposition to liberation theology, women's rights, gay equality, contraception, fertility treatment,
embryonic stem cell research and the Pope's collusion with Holocaust deniers and appeasers.
«Though the degree to which
human embryonic stem cells possess this feature is not entirely clear, by understanding how another complex organism's genome works we ultimately learn more
about how our own genome works,» said Zhou.
Yesterday, the same day an appeals court questioned lawyers
about the case, the government filed documents in a lower court arguing that the lawsuit brought by two researchers who oppose
human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research should be thrown out.
Researchers from Turku, Finland, have discovered new information
about the mechanisms which maintain gene activity in
human embryonic stem cells.
Earlier this year, scientists at University of California, Los Angeles, and Advanced
Cell Technology of Marlborough, Massachusetts, reported in The Lancet
about the safe and successful use of RPE
cells derived from
human embryonic stem cells, rather than iPS
cells, to treat a different type of AMD in a limited number of
human patients.
About 10 years ago, Zhang was the first in the world to grow motor neurons from
human embryonic stem cells.
John Gearhart, one of the first scientists to isolate, in 1998,
human embryonic stem cells, also downplayed the therapeutic value of
human cloning, saying «the more we learn
about reprogramming, the more I think IPS will be the one of choice.»
Anger
about prospects for
human embryonic stem -
cell research might similarly attenuate if practical applications emerge.
I pray for the day when James A. Thomson and others in favor of
human embryonic stem cell research think
about it enough to be totally uncomfortable.
April 2011 - European Court of Justice patenting case
Stem cell scientists have raised serious concerns about the impact of a possible ban on patents for techniques using human embryonic stem ce
Stem cell scientists have raised serious concerns
about the impact of a possible ban on patents for techniques using
human embryonic stem ce
stem cells.
The company had initially submitted its request to begin
human trials with its RPE
cells in November 2009, but has spent the past year addressing the FDA's concerns
about the safety of the
embryonic stem from which the RPE
cells are made.
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.»
Wicker, no political naïf, brought out the big rhetorical ammo, reminding the senators that it was Jamie Thomson, the University of Wisconsin scientist who first reported isolating the
cells in 1998, who said: «If
human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a bit uncomfortable, you have not thought
about it enough.»
In April of last year, the US Food and Drug Administration invited three large biotech companies - Geron, Advanced
Cell Technology, and Novocell - to testify about how to safely test human embryonic stem cell (ESC) products in patie
Cell Technology, and Novocell - to testify
about how to safely test
human embryonic stem cell (ESC) products in patie
cell (ESC) products in patients.
The
stem cell research community hopes that as more is understood
about STAP
cells, they will join
embryonic stem and iPS
cells as another reprogramming tool for use in their collective quest to understand and treat
human disease.
Array CGH provided a much better look at the gene content on the chromosomes of
human embryonic stem cells, with a resolution
about 100 times better than standard clinical methods.
Last week, a ruling by federal Judge Royce C. Lamberth left many
human embryonic stem cell (hESC) researchers not only scrambling for funding and concerned
about the future of their own research, but also concerned for the future of the whole field in this country.
«For a nice two decades scientists have dreamt
about using
human embryonic stem cells to treat diseases... that day has finally come... scientists have used
human embryonic stem cells to successfully treat patients suffering from severe vision loss»
The Society believes that research involving the transfer of a
human nucleus into an animal egg will lead to important new knowledge
about cell nuclear replacement (CNR) technology and, if it were to prove possible to produce
embryonic stem cells by this route, would increase understanding of how to programme these
cells to develop into different tissue types.
Without these two technologies that you'll hear
about in a moment, there would be no such thing as
human embryonic stem cell research, and President Bush could have enjoyed his summer vacation in Crawford without having to agonize over the baptism of the infamous 64
stem cell lines.