Sentences with phrase «cell research policies»

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This year — with such blockbuster issues as jobs, Iraq, domestic security, taxes, and the rising cost of health care — is different only to the extent that President George W. Bush's stem cell research policies have made headlines.

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When I entered the United States Senate in 1996, I had no idea that I would eventually consider stem cell research as one of the most important policy issues in which I am involved.

The essays represent a wide range of scientific topics: neuroscience, biology, «Big Data», forensic anthropology, science policy, STEM education, wildlife ecology, environmental sustainability, sociology, medicine, global health, science ethics, stem cell research, materials engineering, crowd - sourcing, computer science, biotechnology, genetics, agricultural sciences, climate change, and information technology.

Faced with an often - hostile Congress, Obama enacted many of his signature policies by executive order — from reversing restrictions on research with human embryonic stem cells to helping communities prepare for climate change.

The year's most prominent science issue, federal support of embryonic stem cell research, is so controversial that the sons of Ronald Reagan gave dueling speeches at the opposing party conventions; Michael Reagan backs President George W. Bush's policies, including the ban on funding for research on new stem cell lines, while Ron supports Senator John Kerry's promise to lift restrictions.

«With the rise of new and unproven stem cell treatments, the NFL faces a daunting task of trying to better understand and regulate the use of these therapies in order to protect the health of its players,» said Kirstin Matthews, the Baker Institute fellow in science and technology policy and an expert on ethical and policy issues related to biomedical research and development.

And in May, a week after Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a glioma, The EMR Policy Institute, a Marshfield, Vt. — based nonprofit organization that supports research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation, released a statement linking his tumor to heavy cell phone use.

In its comment on the draft policy, the the International Society for Stem Cell Research asks NIH to define some «core principles» covering what is ethically acceptable rather than set explicit rules that might exclude «lines that have been in routine use for the past ten years.»

They can vote in Parliament on issues like stem cell research and policy on mad cow disease, they can pass the Government's science budget without even knowing what it says, but they can not actually engage with the scientific community.

Following release of a report by the National Academies of Science Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) entitled «Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers», Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research Linda Dykstra created a Postdoctoral Committee chaired by Sharon Milgram, an associate professor in the department of cell and molecular physiology.

Some biomedical research watchers are feeling blindsided by a federal appeals court decision last week that reversed a lower court's rejection of a lawsuit challenging the Obama Administration's stem cell policy.

The researchers examined respondents» deference to science on a scale of 0 - 10 when it came to 14 policy issues, including child vaccinations, stem cell research, global warming, child obesity and diet, AIDS prevention, birth control education, legalizing drug use, gun control, regulation of nuclear power, animal testing, and teaching evolution in schools.

«Although NIH played an essential role in the discussions with the Lacks family about the use of HeLa cells, we all need to think about how we approach issues that arise as science moves forward, balancing privacy concerns with advances in research, and the ways policy can be updated to reflect these complexities,» added Dr. Fagen.

The possibilities raise a radical question about the moral status of human cells, noted Jan Helge Solbakk, head of research at the Center for Medical Ethics at the University of Oslo in Norway and chair of the society's ethics and public policy committee.

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 autcell research, says Austin Smith, director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research in Cambridge, U.K., and the letter's leadresearch, says Austin Smith, director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research in Cambridge, U.K., and the letter's lead autCell Research in Cambridge, U.K., and the letter's leadResearch in Cambridge, U.K., and the letter's lead author.

Thursday night, President Bush announced a long - awaited policy on stem cell research.

A week later, a network of stem - cell researchers, bioethicists and policy experts called the Hinxton Group, said that after meetings in Manchester, UK, they had concluded that research involving genome editing in human embryos has «tremendous value to basic research».

Scientists are champing at the bit to find out what President George W. Bush's newly revealed policy will really mean for research using human embryonic stem cells.

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.

«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.

Dr. Sugarman currently serves on the Scientific and Research Advisory Board for the Canadian Blood Service, the Ethics and Public Policy Committees of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, and the Board of Directors of PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research).

His executive order allowed funding on embryonic stem - cell lines derived from embryos that had already been destroyed, but excluded funding of research using stem cells from embryos destroyed after August 9, 2001 (the date of his announced policy).

His contributions to both medical ethics and policy include his work on the ethics of informed consent, umbilical cord blood banking, stem cell research, international HIV prevention research, global health and research oversight.

Public views on even the most familiar of the policy questions surrounding stem cell research are easily swayed in either direction by different framings of the facts and formulations of the questions, and sometimes the same respondents offered starkly opposite answers to similar questions asked in different ways.

«You have countries like the United States which are somewhat ambivalent about stem cell research and have sometimes contradictory policies,» said Robert Cooke - Deegan of Duke University's Centre for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy.

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.

The stories of research involving human embryonic stem cells and the policy governing that work are intertwined and stretch back...

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However, the suit went to the Court of Appeals, which reversed the dismissal when it ruled that Sherley and Deisher were harmed by Obama's policy; as they only worked with adult stem cells, theoretically they would have to deal with increased federal funding competition (due to an increase in hESC research).

(Last month, President Bush vetoed legislation that would have changed the policy in a way that would allow funding of this kind of stem - cell research.)

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.

Each issue also contains a wide variety of review and analysis articles covering topics relevant to stem cell research ranging from basic biological advances to ethical, policy, and funding issues.

Frequently lost in the policy discussions about human embryonic stem cells research are concrete realities that will determine how quickly such research will result in treatments and cures.

Minnesota has plenty of models as it moves to set a policy on stem cell research and cloning, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

In arguments that lasted about 45 minutes in a courtroom crowded with 52 spectators, the three judges zeroed in on where stem cell derivation ends and research begins, and if the two can really be separated for legal purposes, as US policies under George W. Bush and Barack Obama have assumed — a distinction that the plaintiffs argue is fallacious.

A test vote The bill at issue would establish a state policy sanctioning research on both adult and embryonic stem cells as long as patients who donate embryos for the studies consent in writing.

The policy they propose the NIH adopt was included in the recommended guidelines of the National Academy of Science and the International Society for Stem Cell Research, and is followed by many Institutional Review Boards, a fact that would make it easier for those institutions to accept NIH approved cells for research if the NIH changes itsResearch, and is followed by many Institutional Review Boards, a fact that would make it easier for those institutions to accept NIH approved cells for research if the NIH changes itsresearch if the NIH changes its policy.

AJHG provides a record of research and review relating to heredity in humans, the application of genetic principles in medicine and public policy, and related areas of molecular and cell biology as well as behavioral, molecular, biochemical, population, and clinical genetics.

We write to urge you to expand the current federal policy concerning embryonic stem cell research.

The NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry provides guidelines to established policy and procedures under which NIH will fund research in the area of human stem cells.

Gary currently sits on the advisory board of Impossible Labs, the American Society for Cell Biology's LGBTQ Working Group, the steering committee of Rescuing Biomedical Research, and is an advisor to the Genetics Society of America Early Career Scientists Policy Group.

Current policy only allows federal monies to be used for research on 21 stem cell lines that existed before 2001.

The Broad Foundation Donates $ 25 Million To UCSF Stem Cell Program Because scientists were prohibited by President George W. Bush's stem cell policy from conducting these studies in federally funded buildings, UCSF scientists were forced to carry out their research in challenging circumstances — first in segregated space within an existing UCSF lab, later in rented space at an off - campus site and subsequently 40 miles away at Geron Corp., through a joint projCell Program Because scientists were prohibited by President George W. Bush's stem cell policy from conducting these studies in federally funded buildings, UCSF scientists were forced to carry out their research in challenging circumstances — first in segregated space within an existing UCSF lab, later in rented space at an off - campus site and subsequently 40 miles away at Geron Corp., through a joint projcell policy from conducting these studies in federally funded buildings, UCSF scientists were forced to carry out their research in challenging circumstances — first in segregated space within an existing UCSF lab, later in rented space at an off - campus site and subsequently 40 miles away at Geron Corp., through a joint project.

BC High adopted a new cell phone policy which allows students to use their cell phones for research purposes in the library.

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* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

Dr. Marburger, a physicist and former head of Brookhaven National Laboratory, was not confirmed by the Senate until Oct. 23, 2001, after key policies on climate change and stem cell research already had been announced by the White House.»

Data provided to Earth Policy Institute by GTM Research show that Chinese manufacturers again dominated the global industry in 2010, with close to 11,000 megawatts of PV cell production.

An example: «Yes, George W. Bush refused federal funding for embryonic stem - cell research, but that hardly put a stop to it (and not much changed after Barack Obama reversed the policy).»