Sentences with phrase «cell science funded»

Scientists from UCLA's Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research are bringing stem cell science funded by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell agency, directly to patients in two exciting new clinical trials scheduled to begin in early 2014.

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The U.S. was No. 1 in stem cell science until the last Bush administration restricted federal funding.

The first task was to become world leaders in science, to which end he announced an extra # 50 million funding in stem cell research, and a new partnership of pharmaceutical and biomedical companies that would bring in # 500 million in research and development funds.

Funding for this research came, in part, from the National Institutes of Health (1R01NS091010 - 01, 1R01DC014690 - 01), Japan Science and Technology Agency (PRESTO), Pew Charitable Trusts, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Human Frontier Science Program, McKnight Foundation and New York Stem Cell Foundation.

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.

CIRM leaders have said that the organization is now entering a second stage in which the focus of its funding will shift to translating basic stem cell science into therapies.

This collaboration reflects work of The Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, a National Science Foundation - funded Science and Technology Center that supports interdisciplinary research on the way cells exert and are influenced by the physical forces in their environment.

In science news around the world, scientists march in India to call for more research funding, a South Korean researcher who was enmeshed in a stem cell scandal a decade ago resigns from a newly created government position, Canada establishes a vast marine conservation area in the High Arctic, a highly regarded advocate for science is convicted of financial misdemeanors in Egypt, and more.

Dr Lee Campbell, Research Projects and Science Communications Manager at Cancer Research Wales, who part - fund the study, commented: «This is an exciting breakthrough as cancer stem cells are thought to be responsible for the failure of many cancer treatments and the re-emergence of cancers, often many years after the initial disease.

The reviewers dismissed his research as «not impactful,» a common refrain in science funding, which means that Matthew's research might certainly shed light on how cells work — but when it came down to it, how much do we really need to know about how cells work?

The CIRM funding increases the ties between Californian and Australian stem cell science.

The debate about ethics in bio and life sciences in Germany was refueled last week: While Germany's central research funding organization, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), decided to revise its position on human stem cell research, the German government is finally reacting to heated public debates about sensitive issues by establishing a National Ethics Commission.

Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director at the BHF, which helped fund the research, said: «This exciting science explains how the carbon monoxide molecule, which is produced by our heart cells during a heart attack, can protect hearts from potentially fatal disturbances of heart rhythm.

But the win was also a hopeful sign for scientists who have watched from the sidelines in disbelief as politicians cut science funding and distorted research on evolution, stem cells and global warming.

A noted U.S. fertility researcher is relocating to England in a move that some researchers say underscores the uncertainty created by the current debate over government funding of research involving embryonic stem cells (Science, 13 July, p. 186).

The duo, with many of the same laureates, signed a similar letter in 1999 urging Harold Varmus, then NIH director, to go forward with a plan to fund work on the cells (Science, 19 March 1999, p. 1849).

Indeed, Varmus announced on 19 January that researchers might soon be funded to study these cells (Science, 22 January, p. 465).

Researchers have identified a protein that controls how breast cancer cells spread around the body, according to a Cancer Research UK - funded study published in Science Signaling.

They may also be news briefings where the SMC works with scientists to give the national media a new story on developments within science, whether it's a report on climate change, a paper on stem cells being published in a leading journal, or science funding cuts in the latest budget.

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.

He has repeatedly attacked research funded by the National Science Foundation, and has stood in the way of stem cell research, medical care and so much more.

In an emphatic letter published today in Science, 11 researchers argue that NIH should reverse its decision against funding studies in which scientists implant human stem cells into early, nonhuman embryos.

A year and a half ago, when President Obama signed his executive order funding embryo - destructive stem - cell research, I argued in The Weekly Standard that he was perpetuating a needless stem - cell war, that his decision was «bad ethics, bad science, and bad politics.»

But not even this fourth will mark the death knell for this deadly science: while the ruling temporarily halts the federal funding of embryo - destructive stem - cell research, it does nothing to prevent the destruction of human embryos in privately funded research.

\ n \ nIn other words this is a political attempt, based on a technicality, to advance science in the field by getting the US Administration to greatly expand the number of human ES - cell lines that can be used under federal funding.

The research at MIT was funded by Jerry and Marge Burnett, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Human Frontiers Science Program, the IET A. F. Harvey Prize, the Janet and Sheldon Razin ’59 Fellowship of the MIT McGovern Institute, the New York Stem Cell Foundation - Robertson Investigator Award, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.

This research was supported by the NIH (R01 AR062368, R01 AR062920 to A.J.G and R01 DK055679, R01 DK059888, DK055679, DK059888, and DK089763 to A.N.), and J.R.S. is supported by the Intestinal Stem Cell Consortium (U01DK103141), a collaborative research project funded by the National Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and by the NIAID Novel, Alternative Model Systems for Enteric Diseases (NAMSED) consortium (U19AI116482), PHS Grant UL1TR000454 from the Clinical and Translational Science Award Program, and a seed grant from the Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Research Center between Emory University, Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia.

We (Dawson, Evans and Oreffo) developed a Stem Cell Mountain in partnership with Winchester Science Centre — The Stem Cell Mountain has been taken to over 30 Festivals (Glastonbury - Cheltenham, New Forest Show etc.) in the last four years; from the initial BBSRC GB Bioscience Festival in 2014 for which we were awarded funds to develop the Stem Cell Mountain.

«As the only engineer in the U.S. Senate,» Sununu said, «I've been proud to protect funding for the National Science Foundation from political manipulation and fully support funding for adult and amniotic stem cell research — which has already resulted in a number of treatments that have proven to be successful in patient trials.»

DURHAM — Speaking at the University of New Hampshire, actor Michael J. Fox called for a lifting of restrictions on federally funded stem cell research and urged elected leaders in Washington «to take the politics out of science.»

The Council discussed membership, the Society's peer - reviewed journal Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), programming at the annual meeting, the usefulness of preprints, new schemes in federal science funding, and many other issues of importance to ASCB members.

Funding was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the National Science Foundation Stem Cell Biomanufacturing Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through UCSF - CTSI UL 1 TR000004.

The Karen L. Anderson Memorial Fund is established to remember a gifted cell biologist and highly skilled electron microscopist whose dedicated service and career in science made her an invaluable member of the SBP family.

He is the principal investigator of an NCI - funded, multi-million-dollar Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in ovarian cancer, and he is the principal investigator of a multi-million-dollar grant from the New York State Stem Cell Science program (NYSTEM) to pioneer a novel strategy of reprogramming human mature T cells and hematopoietic stem cells for generating sustained attack against ovarian cancer in patients.

He could have left the funding of research involving cell lines created by the destruction of human embryos in place, and led the charge to promote ethically unproblematic non-embryo-destructive forms of stem cell science.

Pending legislation from the Department of Health governing assisted human reproduction and associated research, Science Foundation Ireland is not in a position to fund research using human embryonic stem cells.

Funders The study was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (Project R01AR044031), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Muscular Dystrophy Canada, the Muscular Dystrophy Association (U.S.), the Stem Cell Network, the Canada Research Chairs program, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Swiss National Science Foundation and The Ottawa Hospital Foundation.

WASHINGTON — Seven years after President Bush blocked most federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, the controversial science is likely to get a fresh look from the next occupant of the White House, no matter who it is.

Funding: This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Center for Cell Science, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (NCCS / DBT / INTRA -26 / 2005 - O) to AAH.

«We have a great deal of admiration and respect for Dr. Baltimore and Dr. Witte, and this new center brings together some of the brightest minds in science and medicine,» says Eli Broad, founder of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and a major funder of the Broad Center for the Biological Sciences at Caltech, the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Broad Institute for Biomedical Research in partnership with Harvard and MIT.

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Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, has resulted in a «potentially game - changing solar cell» that removes CO2 from the air and converts it directly into hydrocarbon fuel.

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