Sentences with phrase «done in embryonic stem cells»

When the studies of mitochondrial carryover were done in embryonic stem cells derived from ePNT blastocysts (to allow for more cell divisions during which instability could manifest), some stem cell lines displayed instability and an increase in mitochondrial DNA carryover with time.

The only previous demonstration — by researchers led by Shou - Wei Ding, PhD, a professor of Plant Pathology and Microbiology at UC Riverside and co-corresponding author of the current study — was done in embryonic stem cells and in newborn mice.

Not exact matches

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• President Obama did not go half far enough in lifting the ban against federal funding for embryonic stem - cell research.

Example in point: Opposition to embryonic stem cell / human cloning research: It isn't anti science to oppose treating nascent human life like a corn crop or manufacturing embryos, anymore than it is anti science than the Animal Welfare Act the proscribes what can and can't be done in scientific research with some mammals.

Starting in 2007, in the same French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) lab where he did his Ph.D., Catelain worked to harness the potential of embryonic stem cells for treating cardiac diseases.

The paper doesn't include any genetic analysis of the final eggs that confirms they are healthy, notes Mitinori Saitou, a stem cell biologist at Kyoto University in Japan whose team developed methods to create mouse egg cells from embryonic or reprogrammed stem cells.

The final guidelines on research with human embryonic stem cells issued on Monday by the National Institutes of Health set out criteria for determining which ES cell lines can be used in federally funded experiments and give NIH discretion to approve old lines that don't meet stringent modern ethical requirements.

Lamberth granted a preliminary injunction on this research after hearing a petition from a group of advocates who argued that, contrary to the U.S. government's view, research on embryonic stem cells does in fact destroy embryos — action that is prohibited by legislation known as the «Dickey - Wicker Amendment» to the bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Services.

«Global levels of DNA methylation in IPS cells look amazingly similar to embryonic stem cells,» Ecker says, «but there are distinct regions that do not get reprogrammed properly.»

We also need a more detailed comparison between iPS cells and embryonic stem cells in terms of what they do.

Scientists were even more stunned in July 2002 when researchers led by stem cell biologist Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota reported that bone marrow — derived cells they had injected into young embryos contributed to all three embryonic layers, just as embryonic stem cells would do.

In a response to Friday's decision, NIH spokesperson John Burklow said NIH doesn't set aside fixed amounts of money for studying adult or embryonic stem cells, but instead makes award decisions based on scientific merit and relevance to NIH's priorities.

Unlike embryonic stem cells, the use of adult stem cells in research and therapy is not controversial because the production of adult stem cells does not require the destruction of an embryo.

It is possible to force human skin cells to turn back into embryonic stem cells in the lab, but this doesn't seem to be something we are able to achieve without intervention.

Like embryonic stem cells, iPSC can be differentiated toward any cell type in the body, but they do not require the use of embryos.

I don't know too many other consortia which can integrate expertise in embryonic and tissue stem cell biology, tissue regeneration and repair, bioengineering and nanotechnology, materials science, genomics and bio-informatics.

Although Morrison doesn't study embryonic stem cells — his area is adult stem cells, including how they develop into cancer cells — he pushed for a 2008 ballot proposal in Michigan that overturned a law restricting hESC research.

In January, HHS ruled that the law does not apply to embryonic stem cells because they can not develop naturally into embryos.

Scientists in Canada and Scotland have developed a virus - free method for generating embryonic - like stem cells that does not involve destroying embryos.

He's engaging in classic hype that the religious right uses whenever this issue comes up — claiming that we don't really need embryonic stem cells because adult stem cells are so wonderful that they can take care of everything.

But of course, posed this way the question does not distinguish between stem cells obtained in different ways (and indeed it is sensible to assume that those who expressed opposition in response to this question believed they were being asked about embryonic stem cells, although the survey does not allow us to know that with confidence).

His recent published work describes the rescued visual function in animals using retinal pigment epithelial cells derived from human embryonic stem cells and a method for deriving stem cells using a single - cell approach that does not harm embryos.

What Collins does not say, however, is that the new NIH guidelines also allow for federal funds to be used in studying new human embryonic stem cell lines that are created (by private entities, of course) beyond the 700 currently in existence.

Human embryonic stem cell - derived cardiomyocytes engraft but do not alter cardiac remodeling after chronic infarction in rats.

Wicker, no political naïf, brought out the big rhetorical ammo, reminding the senators that it was Jamie Thomson, the University of Wisconsin scientist who first reported isolating the cells in 1998, who said: «If human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough.»

Even though different cell types were used as the initial starting materials, and they were made to produce different sets of proteins, both groups identified and isolated cells nearly identical to human embryonic stem cells, and did so in the same timeframe.

They included cloning (somatic cell nuclear transfer, accomplished in many placental mammals), stem cell gametogenesis (has been done in mice), direct engineering of early stage embryos (has been done in several mammals), embryonic stem cell editing, and primordial germ cell (PGC) editing.

Instead of starting with embryonic stem cells, as Astellas does, several other research groups are working with retinal progenitor cells found in the eye.

JOE PALCA: Well, John, what they did was they - instead of starting with embryos and using those to derive embryonic stem cells, they started with skin cells, or actually precursors to skin cells called fibroblast, that we all have in our skin.

The biologist doing more than anyone else to stir the debate is University of Wisconsin researcher James Thomson, who co-discovered human embryonic stem cells a decade ago, in November 1998.

«People are jumping in very rapidly, much more rapidly than they did 10 years ago» after the initial discovery of embryonic stem cells, Thomson said.

And meanwhile, university researchers can and do work on embryonic stem cells — just so long as they don't use federal funds (which makes for some complicated partitioning of lab equipment in many a US university department).

Heaven forfend the U.S. be left behind in a post about religion and politics: Obama's move to lift the ban of federal funding of embryonic stem cell research didn't sit well with several U.S. states, which have now passed or are considering legislation to outlaw some forms of the work.