Sentences with phrase «cell research efforts»

These scientists collectively determine the focus of the network and propose the direction of national stem cell research efforts.

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After the bill's passage, Omenn and Leshner sent a letter asking President Bush not to veto the bill and thanked Senate supporters of stem cell research for their efforts.
AAAS wrote to leaders in Congress and the White House, encouraging them to back efforts to expand federal support for stem cell research.
Current research is looking at why inhibiting certain molecules, such as mouse protein Stat3, promote muscle regeneration in mice and how to engineer orthopedic implants from stem cells to replace damaged cartilage and bone, but the results of that effort aren't expected to be necessarily aimed at the old.
After almost a decade of effort, crystallographers have achieved a major goal in AIDS research: They have determined the detailed structure of the protein HIV uses to infect immune cells called T lymphocytes.
The research effort he directs focuses on entirely new compounds that might slow the loss of brain cell connections, which may play a role in schizophrenia biology.
The work published in Cancer Cell complements previous research efforts from the CNIO Melanoma Group, which could lead to the development of novel drugs that selectively target the mechanism of cell autodigestion as a potential therapeutic stratCell complements previous research efforts from the CNIO Melanoma Group, which could lead to the development of novel drugs that selectively target the mechanism of cell autodigestion as a potential therapeutic stratcell autodigestion as a potential therapeutic strategy.
Harvard embryologist Doug Melton argues that efforts to outlaw embryonic stem cell research are rooted in archaic notions of what is natural.
Michael Sandel, a Harvard professor of political science who served for four years on President Bush's bioethics panel, said the committee's prolonged discussion of alternative methods of isolating embryonic stem cells could be viewed as an effort to diminish public support for the research.
Pigs and humans have similar colonic stem cell populations and microbiomes, according to Jairam K.P. Vanamala, who led a research effort to better understand those similarities.
After nearly a year of recruitment efforts, not a single woman consented to donate her eggs for stem cell research.
The cells have contributed to more than 60,000 research papers, the development of a polio vaccine in the 1950s and, most recently, an international effort to characterize the genome, known as ENCODE.
Sandia leads a number of other hydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hresearch efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hResearch and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hydrogen.
New preclinical research on the molecular mechanisms responsible for sickle cell disease could aid efforts to develop much needed treatments for this devastating blood disorder that affects millions worldwide.
UW Medicine Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine scientists are leading the multi-institutional research effort.
The effort, as yet confined to animal studies, is only about a decade old but has become one of the hottest areas of neuroscience research because it promises a more precise understanding of the hugely complex network of cells in the brain.
For several years, the research team from the Turku Centre for Biotechnology lead by Professor Johanna Ivaska has focused their efforts on understanding how cancer cells move and invade surrounding tissue.
During the last several years, research efforts with human cell lines revealed that the genomic loci encoding tRNAs give rise to shorter tRNA fragments («tRFs»).
At the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, neuropsychologist David Hovda spent much of the 1990s examining rat brains in an effort to understand what happens after traumas that leave brain cells alive and the animals conscious.
But the research is another step in the effort to create needed cell types from easily available ones.
Teitelbaum says the new Democrat majority in the U.S. House could bolster efforts to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research beyond the limits that President George W. Bush laid down in 2001.
Nonetheless, passage of the measure marks a significant milestone in efforts to overturn the Bush policy, which limits government funding to research using 60 human ES cell lines derived before 9 August, 2001.
These research and development efforts have helped reduce automotive fuel cell costs by more than 50 % since 2006.
The recent research, published in the journal Blood, centered on the discovery of «epigenetic checkpoints» in T - cell function in an effort to explain how and why these cells are modified to behave differently.
The study, published August 4 in Cell, was a collaborative effort involving research teams at UC Santa Cruz and UCLA.
The Bush council included six members (Michael Sandel, Janet Rowley, William F. May, James Q. Wilson, Michael Gazzaniga, and Elizabeth Blackburn) who favored the production of human embryos for biomedical research in which they would be destroyed in the effort to obtain pluripotent stem cells.
The HDCA programme is part of the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) initiative, an ambitious global research effort that aims to generate a reference map of cells in the human body across all developmental stages.
Cell lines express endogenous or recombinant proteins and are available in a ready - to - use format to facilitate your research efforts
In an effort to reign in the hype surrounding stem cell research that has led to a proliferation of unapproved and potentially dangerous stem cell therapies, the International Society for Stem Celcell research that has led to a proliferation of unapproved and potentially dangerous stem cell therapies, the International Society for Stem Celcell therapies, the International Society for Stem CellCell...
This is the first clinical trial of its kind and The Human Trial is the first film to take us backstage into the world of cure research: the formidable obstacles and grinding effort, the complexity of the disease and the science, what it takes to harvest cells, regulatory rules and the $ 5 billion plus it typically takes to bring a drug to market.
A lot of effort in tumor stem cell research has always been directed to finding a so - called marker, a molecule whose presence on a cell reliably identifies it as a cancer stem cell.
The new editorial policy for all APS journals requires the reporting of sex for cells, tissues and experimental animals and humans (i.e. male and female) or gender where appropriate and suitable for the experimental design of the research effort.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have used clues from studying fish and chickens to advance efforts to regrow hair cells in humans.
An ambitious 4 - year project launched in March 2010 unites more than 90 European stem cell and regenerative medicine research laboratories in a coordinated effort to engage with the public about their science.
In an effort to reign in the hype surrounding stem cell research that has led to a proliferation of unapproved and potentially dangerous stem cell therapies, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) recently released updated guidelines outlining conduct for stem cell researchers that, for the first time, included communications activitcell research that has led to a proliferation of unapproved and potentially dangerous stem cell therapies, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) recently released updated guidelines outlining conduct for stem cell researchers that, for the first time, included communications actresearch that has led to a proliferation of unapproved and potentially dangerous stem cell therapies, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) recently released updated guidelines outlining conduct for stem cell researchers that, for the first time, included communications activitcell therapies, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) recently released updated guidelines outlining conduct for stem cell researchers that, for the first time, included communications activitCell Research (ISSCR) recently released updated guidelines outlining conduct for stem cell researchers that, for the first time, included communications actResearch (ISSCR) recently released updated guidelines outlining conduct for stem cell researchers that, for the first time, included communications activitcell researchers that, for the first time, included communications activities.
Recently, research efforts have concentrated on cell - based therapies for CLI that aim to improve limb perfusion by enhancing neovascularization.
Our current efforts in the AST - VAC2 program are focused on progressing this product towards a Phase 1 / 2a clinical trial in non-small cell lung cancer in collaboration with Cancer Research UK (CRUK).
In this effort, Dr. Zuniga made a major «hit» while a postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Research Institute, when she initiated study into plasmacytoid dendritic cells, a subset of leukocytes that produce large quantities of the antiviral mediators type I interferons, and have significant developmental potential.
We already have, since some approved drugs intervene in cancer cells» specific metabolic needs, but research into how altered metabolism promotes cancer is leading to more directed efforts.
In an effort to further exploit the potential of Pexa - Vec to activate the immune system to fight cancer, as seen in McDonald's preclinical data, SillaJen recently announced a new clinical trial in collaboration with New York - based Regeneron Inc. to test Pexa - Vec and REGN2810, a PD - 1 checkpoint inhibitor, in combination against renal cell carcinoma, and recently signed a sponsored research agreement with UCSF to enable joint support of parallel preclinical experiments by McDonald's team.
«A lot of research efforts are devoted to the basic science of stem cells,» said Davis.
Tenaya is dedicated to addressing heart failure through a multipronged effort that targets the fundamental cellular pathologies present in diseased cardiac muscle and leverages cutting - edge research in cardiac regeneration, induced pluripotent stem cells, and CRISPR technologies.
This concern could apply just as well to experimental research on animal reproduction — efforts to freeze cells of endangered species for research, assisted reproduction, and so on.
The International Society for Stem Cell Research has responded the recent statement from the FDA regarding stem cell treatments, commending them for their efforts on enforcement and «appropriate oversight» in policy direction for the regulation of stem cell treatments and regenerative medicCell Research has responded the recent statement from the FDA regarding stem cell treatments, commending them for their efforts on enforcement and «appropriate oversight» in policy direction for the regulation of stem cell treatments and regenerative mediccell treatments, commending them for their efforts on enforcement and «appropriate oversight» in policy direction for the regulation of stem cell treatments and regenerative mediccell treatments and regenerative medicine.
Research efforts led by Dr. Elizabeth Lawlor are studying how Ewing sarcoma cancer cells are able to survive when deprived of oxygen, and whether suppression of specific proteins can address this abnormal cell survival and lead to better outcomes for patients.
Research Focus: I dedicate my time and effort to develop high - throughput sequencing technologies such as single cell transcriptomic, ChIP - Seq, ChIA - PET, and many more... The scientific rational is to understand better and with a different angle, the mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of gene expression in (rare) immune cells, pathologically relevant in many diseases such as asthma, SLE, tuberculosis...
Core areas of research at the institute include work on brain - computer interfaces to aid patients with spinal injury and paralysis; innovative advances in computational neuroscience to address behavior and mood disorders; and research into mechanisms of cell death as part of efforts to identify therapies for neurodegenerative diseases that include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer's.
October 5, 2015 / Novato, California Following an exhaustive, ten - year effort, scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and the University of Washington have identified 238 genes that, when removed, increase the replicative lifespan of S. cerevisiae yeast cells.
Among its directives, the legislation will direct federal researchers to launch a «Manhattan Project» - type effort on all stem cell research.
With funding and in - kind support from the American Society for Cell Biology, Cancer Research UK, the Company of Biologists, eLife, EMBO, F1000, Hindawi, PLOS, and Wellcome, we have been able to hire a Community Manager, Dr. Anna Hatch, who will be dedicated to coordinating efforts.
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