Sentences with phrase «alternative types of stem cells»

They also claimed that alternative types of stem cells, derived from adult tissue, would serve scientists just as well.

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Not that a principled moral objection shouldn't be enough, but, for those sitting on the fence, the additional discoveries of alternative sources of embryonic - type stem cells should be decisive.

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

«Genetically, this type of clone is still a member of our species,» says David Prentice, a cellular biologist at Indiana State University and cofounder of Do No Harm, a group of scientists favoring alternatives to embryonic stem cell research.

Human Embryonic Stem (hES) cells derived from Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosed (PGD)- embryos offer a new alternative source of cellular model as they can be largely expanded, differentiated in several cell types and harbors «naturally» the causative mutation of the pathology.