Sentences with phrase «allows embryonic stem cells»

This allows embryonic stem cells to be employed as useful tools for both research and regenerative medicine, because they can produce limitless numbers of themselves for continued research or clinical use.

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A few weeks ago we all heard the announcement of a major scientific breakthrough that allowed scientists to create the equivalent of human embryonic stem cells (called induced pluripotent stem cells) but without using or destroying embryos.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allowed a contract for the dissemination of embryonic stem cell lines approved for US government funding to lapse, shuttering a key stem cell bank, and doubling the price researchers pay for samples of some human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line... from $ 500 per vial of frozen cells to $ 1,000.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Breaking ranks with the Bush administration, Pirro said she favors embryonic stem cell research and argued the federal ban on assault weapons should not have been allowed to expire.

* Note from Next Wave's German editor: Current German law prohibits the production of embryonic stem cells, but has a loophole that allows their import.

Last January, the House of Representatives voted, 253 to 174, to pass a bill, H.R. 3, that would allow researchers to use leftover embryos from in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics to create new lines of embryonic stem cells, and in April, the Senate passed its version of the bill.

«Even if we can make other cells to look like embryonic stem cells, ES cells allow you to investigate unique aspects of human embryonic development.»

Mouse embryonic stem cells, reported in 1981 by Martin Evans, Matthew Kaufman, and Gail Martin, have allowed scientists to generate genetically customized strains of mice that have revolutionized studies of organismic development and immunity and have provided countless models of human disease.

Currently, German law (Embryonenschutzgesetz) prohibits the production of embryonic stem cells, but allows the use of imported material.

The Bundestag faces a heated debate on 30 January, when the issue of whether to allow the import of human embryonic stem cells for research purposes is on the agenda.

The ethics council finally issued its 20 - page report just before Christmas, voting in favor of allowing the import of human embryonic stem cells, under certain conditions, by a small majority of 15 to 9, paving the way for next week's final showdown.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted a «stay» that allows human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research to continue during an appeal of a 23 August district court preliminary injunction blocking it.

She says she sees companies as the entities that translate the discoveries made in academic labs into the solutions that, in Tengion's case, could solve the donor - organ shortage by allowing patients to regenerate their own organs without using embryonic stem cells.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, stem cell researcher Sean Morrison, an outspoken proponent of allowing research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) in the state, has been wooed to Texas by its $ 3 billion state cancer research program.

Attempting to find middle ground in the contentious debate over human embryonic stem cells, President George W. Bush announced 9 August that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be allowed to fund work with embryonic stem (ES) cell lines — but only those lines that have already been derived.

A bill that would allow federal funding for derivation of new lines of human embryonic stem (ES) cells passed the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday 238 to 194 after more than four hours of debate.

Shortly after his inauguration, Bush ordered a review of the current National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy, which allows the funding of embryonic stem cell studies as long as researchers receive the cells from privately funded researchers who have derived them in accord with a set of ethical guidelines (ScienceNOW, 23 August 2000).

\ n \ nWhile historically there had been a ban on taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research, there has never been a ban on private funding in this country and many European countries have allowed this type of research for years, but so far none of this research has yielded a single therapeutic use.

But of course, posed this way the question does not distinguish between stem cells obtained in different ways (and indeed it is sensible to assume that those who expressed opposition in response to this question believed they were being asked about embryonic stem cells, although the survey does not allow us to know that with confidence).

His executive order allowed funding on embryonic stem - cell lines derived from embryos that had already been destroyed, but excluded funding of research using stem cells from embryos destroyed after August 9, 2001 (the date of his announced policy).

Please do not allow yourself to be misled into thinking that the only hope for your grandson lies with embryonic stem cell research.

What Collins does not say, however, is that the new NIH guidelines also allow for federal funds to be used in studying new human embryonic stem cell lines that are created (by private entities, of course) beyond the 700 currently in existence.

Then there are stem cells, which tantalize with their myriad possibilities: allowing diabetics to throw away their insulin, growing healthy cardiac tissue after a heart attack, restoring function to people with spinal cord injury (for which the Food and Drug Administration just approved the first embryonic stem cell trial).

President Barack Obama in 2009 signed an executive order allowing federal funding to flow to scientists working on embryonic stem - cell research.

Current efforts, mostly conducted in animal models, involve attempting to derive and aggregate embryonic stem cells, exposing them to such factors as acetic acid, allowing them to differentiate, or specialize, and then sorting through these cells to extract the cell types of interest.

This finding complements previous research from the University of Edinburgh and the National Institute for Medical Research which showed that embryonic stem cells can be coaxed into this spinal cord cells; however, the Cambridge researchers showed that the in the embryo - like aggregates, the structural organization is more robust and allows for the polarised growth of the tissue.

«Finally, to assess the potential fate of mtDNA under condition when the cells can replicate extensively (longer than allowed by UK law), they derived human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines from five ePNT blastocysts.

When the studies of mitochondrial carryover were done in embryonic stem cells derived from ePNT blastocysts (to allow for more cell divisions during which instability could manifest), some stem cell lines displayed instability and an increase in mitochondrial DNA carryover with time.

David Volk of the South Dakotans for Lifesaving Cures said the initiative will ask voters to allow research on embryonic stem cells, but only stem cells left over from in vitro fertilization procedures, cells that would have been discarded otherwise.

The bill, Senate File 162, carves out an exception to Iowa's 2002 ban on human cloning allowing researchers to use cloning techniques to produce embryonic stem cells for medical study.

Obama's administration allowed federal funding of embryonic stem cell research if the following conditions applied:

In one approach, a one - cell - thick layer of RPE cells derived from human embryonic stem cells or adult RPE stem cells is placed on a material that allows nutrients and waste materials to pass through and is implanted in the eye.

This ruling allows researchers to continue feeding embryonic stem cell cultures, experimenting with mice, and other research activities until this court rules, the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in, or Congress passes legislation that clarifies the issues.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allowed a contract for the dissemination of embryonic stem cell lines approved for US government funding to lapse, shuttering a key stem cell bank, and doubling the price researchers pay for samples of some human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines.

«It is likely we'll have a key decision from the appeals court on whether Dickey - Wicker allows federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.»

Gov. Tim Pawlenty opposes a bill currently before the Minnesota Legislature that would allow state funding for research on embryonic stem cells.

Using cloning technology to derive embryonic stem cells genetically identical to a patient is potentially very important, not only to provide a source of cells that may be used to cure patients, but also to allow for genetic disease to be studied and potential drug treatments to be explored in the laboratory.

Determining how an embryonic stem cell differentiates into mature cells might eventually allow development of methods to reprogram an adult cell.

«President Obama's executive order today lifting federal restrictions on embryonic stem cell research is years overdue and will now allow the full potential of scientific research and discovery to be realized.