Sentences with phrase «embryonic stem cell research also»

Opponents of embryonic stem cell research also are grabbing onto recent scientific advances that they say obviate the need for destroying embryos.

Not exact matches

If we are against the use of stem cell research on the basis of embryonic destruction, shouldn't we also be against in - vitro fertilization clinics because there are always excess embryos that get discarded?

Yet the latter form, which is present some eight weeks after fertilization, is not only ethically unacceptable for research but also far too old to yield embryonic stem cells.»

The centre will adopt a multidisciplinary approach toward stem cell research, and it will employ scientists «who will work on a diverse array of embryonic and adult stem cells,» adds Rudnicki, who is also the centre's director.

Collins and others argue not just for a permanent removal of the injunction to resume research with confidence, but also for an extension of the number of embryonic stem cell lines available to federally funded researchers.

Also participating in this research were Prof. Jacob Hanna, who assisted with growing the embryonic stem cells, and research student Aditya Kshirsagar in Prof. Reiner's group.

In the following years, advocates were also actively engaged in Washington, D.C, encouraging policymakers to broaden embryonic stem cell research funding, which was ultimately passed after President Barack Obama came into office.

We should not only question the construct of the «ethics of curing,» as I will show, but we also need to look critically at reservations toward research on embryonic stem cells as they are expressed in our society.

Scientists from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered that NANOG, an essential gene for embryonic stem cells, also regulates cell division in stratified epithelia — those that form part of the epidermis of the skin or cover the esophagus or the vagina — in adult organisms.

«We are in an era where the primary issues are not federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research,» wrote CAMR President Amy Comstock Rick, who is also CEO of the Parkinson's Action Network, in an e-mail to the more than 100 patient advocacy, scientific, and other groups that belong to CAMR.

The 50 - year - old Faustman says her work also undermines an important rationale for a favored subject of diabetes research, embryonic stem cells.

But last April he also voted for the HOPEAct, a Bush - supported «compromise» bill that would open up federal funding for research that does not involve the creation, destruction, or injury of embryos; seeing as there are not yet any embryonic stem cells lines that meet this condition (ACT hasn't yet proven that their technique poses no «risk of injury»), the HOPE funding would only be available for non-embryonic stemcells.

The 2012 platform also repeats previous calls for expanding federal funding «for the stem - cell research that now offers the greatest hope for many afflictions — with adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, and cells reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells — without the destruction of embryonic human life.»

If dealing with the public relations nightmare over its on - off - on funding of Planned Parenthood wasn't enough, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure cancer charity last week also got entangled, somewhat bizarrely, in the debate over human embryonic stem (ES) cell research.

They also touched off the most serious moral and ethical debate so far over both embryonic stem cell research and human cloning.

Price has also been outspoken against research using embryonic stem cells.

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This approach to derive patient - specific Embryonic Stem cell - like cells (iPS cells) is going to open up research into the genetic causes of disease and the search for therapies not only for such diseases, but also for repairing tissues damaged in other ways.

Zernicka - Goetz's research could also lead to important advancements in the study of embryonic stem cell therapy applications.

Shaheen, whose granddaughter was recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and Fox have joined a majority of medical researchers around the country who believe that embryonic stem cell research offers more potential than other stem cell lines, which have also attracted research attention.

Last week, a ruling by federal Judge Royce C. Lamberth left many human embryonic stem cell (hESC) researchers not only scrambling for funding and concerned about the future of their own research, but also concerned for the future of the whole field in this country.

Those in favor of human embryonic stem - cell research because they believe it could save human lives are, for the most part, also for human - bovine embryonic stem - cell research because they believe it could save human lives.

And so it's really great that embryonic stem cell research was there for us, and also that most of these leads that we're talking about today came from embryonic stem cell research.

The administration also restricted the use of embryonic stem cells in scientific research, maintaining that they were derived from the destruction of human embryos.