\ n3) There are «pluripotent» stem cells which are created from skin cells and offer the potential for becoming different cells similar to the hypothetical
benefits of embryonic stem cells, but they do NOT involve any moral controversy.
Vowing to veto the legislation, Bush said before the vote that the «reports give us added hope that we may one day enjoy the potential
benefits of embryonic stem cells without destroying human life.»
Not exact matches
Proponents
of the anything - goes position assert that the potential scientific and medical
benefits of embryonic stem -
cell research override all other considerations» and therefore restrictions on the funding and scope
of this research are unwarranted.
Proponents
of the anything - goes position assert that the potential scientific and medical
benefits of embryonic stem -
cell research override all other considerations» and....
Research involving the derivation and use
of embryonic stem (ES)
cells is permissible only where there is strong scientific merit in, and potential medical
benefit from, such research.
«Studies on
embryonic development greatly
benefit from the culture system
of embryonic stem cells and, more recently, induced pluripotent
stem cells.
He predicts that the small but potent research community
of universities and biotech companies centered in St. Louis and Kansas City will
benefit from passage
of the amendment — which prevents lawmakers from barring work on
embryonic stem cells while criminalizing cloning with the goal
of reproduction — as will patients.
First, promising to restore the integrity
of science while seeking vast medical
benefits for many, President Obama repealed the restrictions set by President Bush on the use
of federal funds for
embryonic stem cell research.
Two recent developments involving the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) again serve to underscore the reality that adult and other non-
embryonic avenues
of stem cell research are advancing at a far more dramatic pace toward providing actual therapeutic
benefits for patients than is human
embryonic stem cell research (hESCR).
The current ethical, political, and scientific debates on
stem cells pitch the
benefits and limitations
of 2
cell types against each other, adult vs
embryonic stem cells.
Congresswoman Lois Capps addressed the
benefits of these studies Wednesday for the Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee hearing on
stem cell research in Washington, D.C., applauding researcher's diligence despite administration interventions prohibiting federally funded
embryonic stem cell research.
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.