Sentences with phrase «cell research in»

Our mission is to accelerate stem cell treatments for patients with unmet medical needs by funding promising stem cell research in California.

Stem cell research in cats doesn't stop there.

The Broad Foundation is the largest nongovernmental donor to stem cell research in California, having given $ 75 million to support or create stem cell centers at UCSF, USC and UCLA.

It now goes to Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who has supported and set aside funds for stem cell research in previous years through executive orders and other means.

The new fund will offer researchers university - wide resources for both embryonic and tissue - specific stem cell research in the university's Medical School and Center for Stem Cell Biology.

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.

In the field of stem cell research in Maryland, scientists submit more than four times as many requests for research money as there are state grants to support them.

Voters in California will be the first in the country to cast ballots on an initiative that supports human stem cell research in a concrete way: by providing funding.

2/20/2007 Seven at UC San Diego Receive Stem Cell Funding from California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Dr. Leon Thal of UC San Diego honored with naming of statewide SEED grants More than two years after voters approved a $ 3 billion program to fund stem cell research in California, the state has approved the first grants focused solely on human embr... More...

Robert Klein, chairman of the CIRM bragged that the grants «make us the highest funder of human embryonic stem cell research in the world.»

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com)-- As the Senate prepares to tackle the thorny issue of forcing taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research in the coming weeks, two senators are reintroducing a bill that would institute a national ban on all forms of human cloning.

Prior to moving the study to a second patient, Dr. Takahashi chose to delay the trial as part of a safety validation step and in consideration of anticipated regulatory changes to iPS cell research in Japan.

Through May 2013, the CIRM governing board has approved 611 research grants totaling $ 1.822 billion, making CIRM the largest source of funding for human stem cell research in the world.

Summary of a panel discussion at the recent annual meeting of the International Society of Stem Cell Research in Stockholm, featuring international experts discussing the complex issues surrounding the sale and marketing of experimental stem cell treatments.

Phil Jones has a long - standing interest in stem dells and is an affiliated investigator in this important initiative to develop stem cell research in Cambridge.

Discover the history, evolution, and «real science» of stem cell research in a documentary made in close collaboration between filmmakers and scientists.

In fact, professed familiarity with stem cell research in the prior question turned out to be a leading indicator of actual ignorance with respect to this question of therapeutic uses.

Adult stem cell research does take place at Georgetown, in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, in addition to groundbreaking stem - like cell research in the Center for Cell Reprogramming.

In January of 2009, I believe no matter who is elected, the first steps will be taken toward elucidating the role of stem cell research in human disease.

Our political debates about stem cell research in recent years have stood in a peculiar relation to public opinion.

«We thought it was crucial, with the science advancing incredibly rapidly, and as intellectual property policies evolve in East Asia, to examine our 2010 global recommendations for proprietary issues in stem cell research in that regional context,» Mathews says.

Missouri voters have narrowly approved a measure sanctioning embryonic stem cell research in the state.

Bot's opinion seems contrary to the European Union's own policies regarding stem cell research, says Austin Smith, director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research in Cambridge, U.K., and the letter's lead author.

Shoukhrat Mitalipov, of the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, made a series of breakthroughs in primate stem cell research in recent years.

«This finding provides a whole other outlook on protein - folding diseases; a new way to go after them,» said Andrew Dillin, the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair of Stem Cell Research in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, Berkeley.

She has also championed the space program and stem cell research in the United States.

Embryonic stem cell research in Michigan would be regulated under bills passed yesterday by the state Senate.

But though stem cell research in general is booming in Germany, the political implications of human embryonic stem cell research remain unresolved.

«We found that the worms and human cells were almost completely protected from the Huntington's aggregates when we turned on this response,» said Andrew Dillin, the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research in UC Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

To counteract all the claims, Daley helped devise a set of guidelines issued by the International Society for Stem Cell Research in 2007.

Research in the laboratory of Rebecca Wingert, the Gallagher Family Associate Professor of Adult Stem Cell Research in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has confirmed the key role of a certain small molecule in the development of kidney structures in zebrafish, a widely used model for human kidneys.

«This shows not only that the use of stem cell research in the clinical treatment of childlessness is unrealistic but also that clinics should focus on using the eggs that women have had since birth in treating infertility,» says Professor Kui Liu.

This set the stage for a relatively restrictive environment for embryonic (although not adult) stem cell research in the United States relative to some other countries — the National Institutes of Health currently funds between about $ 600 miilion to $ 700 million a year in stem cell research.

Massachusetts is also a major hub for stem cell research in the United States.

In late 2004, California voters approved Proposition 71, allocating $ 3 billion over 10 years, making California the largest single funder of embryonic and pluripotent stem cell research in the world and consequently one of the strongest job markets for regenerative research.

ACT's announcement stoked fears that scientists were trying to clone humans for reproductive purposes — and conflated reproductive cloning and human - embryonic - stem - cell research in many people's minds.

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

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.

But even as he does so, the underlying science may well move the politics of stem - cell research in the other direction.

Not exact matches

His research shows that in cases of hearing loss, the ear's nerve fibers become damaged before the hair cells do, and when those synaptic fibers reconnect to the hair cells, it's possible to regain hearing.

They would include jobs in research and development, manufacturing and sales and would be focused on the company's next - generation cell technology.

«If you're vulnerable and isolated, the more important that cell phone becomes for you,» says Mark Latonero, a fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York, who has studied technology and human trafficking.

Increased ability to burn fat: Research shows that cold - induced glucose uptake results in the creation of brown fat cells, which create warmth, burn energy and keep you slim.

The research cluster in B.C. centred around early developer Ballard Power still accounts for more than a quarter of fuel - cell industry revenues worldwide, said B.C.'s job, tourism and skills training minister, Pat Bell.

Bob Johnson, director of photovoltaics at research firm Strategies Unlimited, in Mountain View, Calif., says PV cells may drop below their current price by 30 % or more by 2010, even without big technological advances, making the cost of solar energy competitive with conventional sources.

The company offers researchers a money - back guarantee you'll get 50 percent or better editing in any human cell type for research use.

«While Canadians aren't dissatisfied with their cell phone service, they understand it could be better, and they're betting that a big player like Verizon could really shake out some of the cobwebs in the Canadian mobile market,» said Forum Research President, Dr. Lorne Bozinoff.

Instead, LaFlamme's research team in Toronto is taking a different approach through injecting a billion heart - muscle cells (otherwise known as cardiomyocytes) that have been developed from stem cells.

But organizers of the International Summit on Human Gene Editing said editing genes in human embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnancy.

When sitting in my dark gray cell with my books, newspapers and magazines, while writing, reading and researching the tech sector, I would visualize myself in Silicon Valley at partner meetings, with my new startup, raising capital from prominent venture capitalists.