Sentences with phrase «equivalent of embryonic stem cells»

For the first time, specialised cells have been reprogrammed into the equivalent of embryonic stem cells without using genes that might trigger cancer.

Just before Thanksgiving, news broke about a new stem - cell technique that could produce the equivalent of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) but without using or destroying human embryos.

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A few weeks ago we all heard the announcement of a major scientific breakthrough that allowed scientists to create the equivalent of human embryonic stem cells (called induced pluripotent stem cells) but without using or destroying embryos.

Well it seems like Ivan can relax, Michael Peroski has just solved all of our problems: Proceeding from ideology - driven inquiry entails starting from an answer: «Research on human embryonic stem cell should be forbidden because embryos are equivalent to human lives» and working....

For example, there is no equivalent of indefinitely self - renewing embryonic stem cells in the human embryo — these are instead transient cells that very quickly specialise to become the precursors of tissues in the embryo.

Despite the promise of iPS cells, scientists are still struggling to understand whether their developmental potential is equivalent to that of embryonic stem cells.