Sentences with phrase «derive new stem cell lines»
On August 23, 2010, Judge Royce Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines allowing federal dollars to fund projects in which embryos were destroyed to derive new stem cell lines.
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Hamilton announced the newest organ - on - chip innovation, which recreates an intestinal lining using patient - derived stem cells, created through a partnership between Emulate and Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute.
In effect, the new guidelines provide an incentive to private research entities to obtain so - called «leftover» embryos from fertility clinics and derive stem cell lines from them in order to obtain NIH research dollars to study the derived lines.
Using pre-implantation genetic diagnosis derived human embryonic stem cell lines (hES) or human induced pluripotent stem cells carrying the causal mutation for neuro - muscular diseases, our objective is double: identify new physiopathogical mechanisms and develop new therapeutic strategies.
Labs that derive new human embryonic stem cell lines are few, partly because they can not get financial support from federal sources.
Obama called upon the National Institutes of Health to set up rigorous guidelines to ensure that new stem cells lines were derived by ethical practices.
«Over a thousand lines have been derived since August 9, 2001, many with attributes beneficial to medical research,» says Daley, whose own lab has derived 18 new stem cell lines.
However, some consider human embryonic stem cell research controversial because, in some cases, the new stem cell lines are derived frozen human embryos that have been donated for research.