Sentences with phrase «as embryonic stem»

Stem cells found in the blood and bone marrow are immature cells that develop into red and white blood cells, platelets and additional stem cells (they are not the same as embryonic stem cells).

«The holy grail in this field,» Kass says, «is to get cells which are every bit as capable as embryonic stem cells without using embryos at all.»

Pluripotent cells such as embryonic stem (ES) and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are the starting point from which to generate organ specific cell types.

They successfully converted mature mouse skin cells into what they called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells that had the same wide - open potential as embryonic stem cells — which the researchers showed by turning their iPS cells into nerve and connective tissue cells.

For these cells to be as useful as embryonic stem cells, «we have to find a way to avoid retroviruses before application in cell therapy», Yamanaka says, as they could result in tumours.

As an alternative to harvesting them from embryos, scientists can also obtain pluripotent stem cells by treating mature somatic cells with a cocktail of transcription factors to regress them so that they are nearly as flexible as embryonic stem cells.

Previous work suggested they were as malleable as embryonic stem cells and so could be reprogrammed to make any kind of tissue.

Scientists were even more stunned in July 2002 when researchers led by stem cell biologist Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota reported that bone marrow — derived cells they had injected into young embryos contributed to all three embryonic layers, just as embryonic stem cells would do.

Once it starts, this process is usually irreversible — much as embryonic stem cells have no alternative but to become part of a kidney or cartilage once the biological «switch» is thrown.

The reprogrammed skin cells that have led to this enthusiasm seem to have the same properties as the embryonic stem cells (ESCs) found in human embryos just a few days old.

The induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) that the new method produces have the same ability as embryonic stem cells to turn into any kind of tissue.

The newly discovered human cells, named «cord - blood - derived embryonic - like stem cells» or CBEs, are not quite as primitive as embryonic stem cells, which can give rise to any tissue type of the body.

But the methods used to reprogram cells can damage their DNA, and the iPS cells may not behave in exactly the same way as embryonic stem cells.

A type of «virgin birth» stem cell could be as powerful as embryonic stem cells but without the same ethical objections, and are being tested for Parkinson ’s

«There's no reason in my mind to think that we're not going to have iPS cells that function as well as embryonic stem cells».

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Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together with pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem - cell research, and attempts at human cloning.

The NIH defines totipotent cells as the source of both embryonic stem cells and of trophoblast cells which give rise to extra-embryonic tissues such as the placenta.

research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in the public imagination.

Embryonic stem cells are scientifically and medically interesting because they are «pluripotent» (capable of generating many cell types), but they are not the same as totipotent single - cell embryos.

Embryonic stem cells are produced during development by the same process of epigenetic programming that later will produce adult cells such as skin and brain.

Human cloning has been proposed as a means of generating human embryos that can be destroyed to obtain embryonic stem cells.

In addition, scientific journals continue to push the issue of embryonic stem - cell research in their editorial and commentary sections, using it as a prime criterion to grade political candidates.

(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.

McCain, as mentioned earlier, has backed embryonic stem cell research in the past.

Former Senator Rick Santorum (R — PA) is a strong backer of adult stem - cell research, and opposed to embryonic stem - cell research because he views destruction of embryos as destruction of human life.

It can be used in embryonic stem cell research, or in regenerative medicine where it is sometimes referred to as «therapeutic cloning.»

On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all human cloning methods, including efforts to use cloned embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

The ability of SIF - seq to use reporter assays in mouse embryonic stem cells to identify human embryonic stem cell enhancers that are not present in the mouse genome opens the door to intriguing research possibilities as Dickel explains.

Human embryonic stem cells are at last being tested in common, potentially fatal diseases such as heart failure and diabetes

Decades after they were discovered, human embryonic stem cells are being trialled as a treatment for two major diseases: heart failure and type 1 diabetes

Further ahead, he is looking to an emerging technology known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), in which adult cells are reprogrammed to be like embryonic stem cells so they can transform into any type of cell.

Induced pluripotent stem cells (known as iPSCs) are similar to human embryonic stem cells in that both cell types have the unique ability to self - renew and have the flexibility to become any cell in the human body.

Although the U.S. government puts stringent restrictions on funding for research on embryonic stem cells, individual states such as California have set up institutes to perform that work and general stem cell studies.

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

Existing European patents involving embryonic stem cells — most of which were issued in the United Kingdom — will not be invalidated immediately, but lawsuits challenging individual patents will use the ruling as guidance.

Base oxidation regulates gene activity In cooperation with colleagues at LMU, as well as researchers based in Berlin, Basel and Utrecht, Carell and his group have now shown, for the first time, that a standard base other than cytosine is also modified in embryonic stem cells of mice.

Thus, they consider the use of embryonic stem cells for research purposes as unconstitutional.

Freed expects transplants of neurons derived from embryonic stem cells to enter the clinical arena soon as well.

In 2006, Japanese scientists figured out how to reprogram specialized cells, such as those in skin, so that they act like embryonic stem cells.

They also showed that the cells have most of the surface «markers» considered as identifiers of embryonic stem cells and form «embryoid bodies» — characteristic clumps of cells formed by ESCs.

The act of reprogramming cells to make them as capable as ones from embryos apparently can result in aberrant cells that age and die abnormally, suggesting there is a long way to go to prove such cells are really like embryonic stem cells and can find use in therapies.

They showed that ZIKV infection of cortical progenitors (stem cells for cortical neurons) controlling neurogenesis triggers a stress in the endoplasmic reticulum (where some of the cellular proteins and lipids are synthetized) in the embryonic brain, inducing signals in response to incorrect protein con - formation (referred to as «unfolded protein response»).

Embryonic stem cells helped researchers develop other research tools, such as iPSCs, he pointed out.

As a graduate student at Princeton University, Moshe Pritsker tried in vain to grow a culture of embryonic stem cells from instructions laid out in the methods section of a journal article.

Contributions from careful, sober - minded scientists can also help defuse controversy in fields that get headlines, such as climate change and embryonic stem cells.

Recently, however, I was alarmed to hear that my fellow Delawareans voted to oust Representative Mike Castle, a solid moderate who pushed for embryonic stem cell research and was handily elected as the Republican representative of a largely Democratic state for nine consecutive terms, in favor of Christine O'Donnell, who, as far as I can tell, is a houseplant.

A person with spinal injuries today went down in history as the first to receive a treatment derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).

The immediate payoff was a commercialization deal in age - related macular degeneration in which Pfizer became the first big pharma company to make a move into the use of embryonic stem cells as the basis for a tissue regeneration therapy.

«We can work with any embryonic stem cell line from any source and are not restricted to working with the very small number of federally approved lines as is the case for researchers in the United States,» says Minger.

Scientists, with practice, have now been able to make nuclear transfer nearly routine to produce cattle, cats, mice, sheep, goats, pigs, and — as a Korean team announced in May — even human embryonic stem (ES) cells.