Sentences with phrase «embryonic stem cell projects»

In the meantime a large number of federally funded human embryonic stem cell projects have been placed on hold, and even more are potentially at risk.

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A recent federal court injunction based on a congressional budget amendment passed years before the first human embryonic stem cells were isolated has thrown many of the field's ongoing projects into limbo

For example, a consortium of research groups called the London Project to Cure Blindness aims to test RPE transplants from embryonic stem cells in patients with macular degeneration this year.

Ottmar Wiestler and Oliver Brüstle intend to grow neural transplantation cells using human embryonic stem cells, in a project that has been scientifically approved.

For example we are implementing the use of the CRISPR mouse mutagenesis technology directly in mouse embryos, which will lead to great savings and acceleration of projects in their early phase by removing the need to use embryonic stem cells.

The IMPC envisages a ten year programme to undertake a broad - based, systematic genome - wide phenotyping project of knockout mice generated from the embryonic stem cell mutant resources developed by the International Knock - out Mouse Consortium (IKMC).

The Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee at UCI also has reviewed the project and will ensure that experiments involving embryonic stem cells serve important research goals and are conducted according to the highest ethical sEmbryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee at UCI also has reviewed the project and will ensure that experiments involving embryonic stem cells serve important research goals and are conducted according to the highest ethical standaStem Cell Research Oversight Committee at UCI also has reviewed the project and will ensure that experiments involving embryonic stem cells serve important research goals and are conducted according to the highest ethical sembryonic stem cells serve important research goals and are conducted according to the highest ethical standastem cells serve important research goals and are conducted according to the highest ethical standards.

February 2010 - Italian stem cell scientists challenge goverment EuroSyStem scientist Elena Cattaneo challenges Italian government - the story continues In the summer of 2009, three Italian stem celli scientists unsuccessfully challenged their government in the courts over its decision to exclude human embryonic stem cell research from a ministerial funding call for projects on stem cell biology.

We congratulate stem cell researcher Martin Leeb on winning an International FWF grant for the research project «Systems biology of embryonic stem...

April 2012 - New research: Illuminating embryonic stem cells Collaboration between two EU funded projects «Heroic» and «EuroSyStem», has provided new insights into embryonic stem cells The teams used next generation sequencing technology to examine two key properties of the cells that influence their identity and behaviour: gene expression and gene regulation.

That study found that since MSCRF first began awarding grants in 2007, its pattern of giving shifted over the years from strongly favoring projects focusing on ethically contentious human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) to projects focusing on ethically non-contentious adult stem cells and other non-embryonic stem cell research.

The birthday greeting contained an unintended irony, for while CIRM was approved by California voters a decade ago to give priority funding to human embryonic stem cell research, eight of the 10 approved clinical trials referenced by City of Hope were for research projects using adult and other non-embryonic stem cells.

If the Court follows his recommendation, patenting of applications using embryonic stem cells will be prohibited on moral grounds.13 leaders of major stem cell projects in Europe responded to the advocate - general's statement with an open letter published in Nature this week.

The project will focus on answering the question, how an embryonic stem cell computes cues from its environment to elicit a regulated, exact cell fate choice during a process called «differentiation».

Henk Stunnenberg, leader of one of the research groups that carried out the study and coordinator of both Heroic and the recently started High Impact Project BLUEPRINT, said: «The epigenetic make - up - a layer of regulatory instructions on top of the genome - of the pure embryonic stem cells shows remarkable and unexpected features, in particular with respect to developmental genes.

We'll start with ChIP - seq data from the ENCODE project, find enhancers in embryonic stem cells, and conclude with a targeted CRISPR screen that can disrupt these enhancers.

We congratulate stem cell researcher Martin Leeb on winning an International FWF grant for the research project «Systems biology of embryonic stem cell differentiation».

This project aims at the transplantation of retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells in patients with retinitis pigmentosa.

The Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP & KOMP2) is a trans - NIH initiative that aims to generate a comprehensive and public resource comprised of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells containing a null mutation in every gene in the mouse genome.

Mouse embryonic stem cells with one allele of Melk inserted with lacZ and neomycin - resistance genes between exon 2 and 3 were obtained from the Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP; ID: CSD33136).

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond • VA 2008 — 2008 Experiment Design, Project Innovatively designed an experiment that would utilize embryonic stem cells, and scaffold to mimic kidney function.