Sentences with phrase «first embryonic stem cell»

The VC - 01 product candidate is the first embryonic stem cell - derived islet replacement therapy to reach clinical testing and is currently being evaluated in patients with T1D who have minimal to no insulin - producing beta cell function.

Then there are stem cells, which tantalize with their myriad possibilities: allowing diabetics to throw away their insulin, growing healthy cardiac tissue after a heart attack, restoring function to people with spinal cord injury (for which the Food and Drug Administration just approved the first embryonic stem cell trial).

In February 2004 Hwang and his research group reported the first embryonic stem cell line derived from a cloned human embryo.

The world's first embryonic stem cell bank should be up and running within a year.

«First embryonic stem cell therapy safety trial in Asian patients.»

«When we look back in 25 years, putting the first embryonic stem cells into humans will prove as momentous as man's first step on the moon.»

Not exact matches

While scientists have previously had success in 3D printing a range of human stem cell cultures developed from bone marrow or skin cells, a team from Scotland's Heriot - Watt University claims to be the first to print the more delicate, yet more flexible, human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).

(CNN)- The White House meant no disrespect toward Nancy Reagan when it failed to invite the former first lady and vigorous supporter of embryonic stem cell research to a bill signing ceremony on the subject, press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.

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

To turn one cell into another you usually need to first rewind them into embryonic - like stem cells.

Trials of cells made from human embryonic stem cells are also poised to begin in people with type 1 diabetes and heart failure, the first time embryonic stem cells have been used in the treatment of major lethal diseases.

Geron was bigger and better funded than ACT, and it was the first company to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test a therapy in humans based on embryonic stem (ES) cells.

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

Base oxidation regulates gene activity In cooperation with colleagues at LMU, as well as researchers based in Berlin, Basel and Utrecht, Carell and his group have now shown, for the first time, that a standard base other than cytosine is also modified in embryonic stem cells of mice.

«We've figured out for the first time how to produce these cells from human embryonic stem cells literally by the billions and billions,» Lanza says.

In the United Kingdom, research on embryonic stem cells is legal in the first 2 weeks of their development.

Embryonic - like stem cells have previously been discovered in amniotic fluid and in the umbilical cord, but this is the first time they have been discovered in an adult.

Although British researchers had discovered embryonic stem cells in laboratory animals in 1981, it wasn't until 1998 that a Wisconsin team announced it had isolated stem cells from human embryos for the first time.

Eighteen adults with severe eye disease who were among the first people to receive transplants created from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) continue to have no apparent complications with the introduced cells after an average of nearly 2 years, according to the latest status report on their health.

Then, a team led by Robert Lanza, the chief scientific officer of Advanced Cell Technology Inc. in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and his colleagues published the first results ever of a clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells.

In the past year, the South Korean Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the world's first three stem - cell treatments — Hearticellgram - AMI, Cupistem and Cartistem — which followed on the heels of clinical tests for human embryonic stem - cell therapies approved in 2010, according to the health ministry.

A person with spinal injuries today went down in history as the first to receive a treatment derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).

In May 2013, Mitalipov was the first scientist in the world to demonstrate the successful use of somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT, to produce human embryonic stem cells from an individual's skin cell.

The immediate payoff was a commercialization deal in age - related macular degeneration in which Pfizer became the first big pharma company to make a move into the use of embryonic stem cells as the basis for a tissue regeneration therapy.

We take a human embryonic stem cell, and we inject it into a monkey blastocyst [the first 130 or so cells in a newly formed embryo].

Mouse embryos: Scientists first found embryonic stem cells in mice in the 1970s, but an understanding of the critical role they play in cell differentiation only emerged years later.

Starting in the mid-2000s, Yoshiki Sasai's team at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, demonstrated how to grow brainlike structures using embryonic stem cells, first from mice and then humans.

The scientists first compared mouse megakaryocyte cells created from embryonic stem cells engineered to lack p45 - Nfe2 with normal megakaryocytes.

ACT, which has almost gone under several times in recent years, may now be on the verge of conducting the nation's first trial of an embryonic stem cell therapy, says Chief Scientific Officer Robert Lanza.

A clinical trial in the Republic of Korea for patients with degenerative eye diseases is the first to test the safety of an embryonic stem cell therapy for people of Asian descent.

In the U.S., as well as in Germany and the UK, first results with adult stem cells suggest that they are at least equivalent to embryonic stem cells.

But after learning that work by South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang had been faked, the journal Science retracted Hwang's landmark papers from 2004 and 2005, which reported the first human embryonic stem cells from cloned embryos.

The work was led by Dan S. Kaufman, a hematologist, and James A. Thomson, the first scientist to grow human embryonic stem cells in culture.

Around the same time, Yoshiki Sasai of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, cultured the first brain organoids, starting not with adult stem cells but with embryonic stem cells.

In June Italian scientists announced the first human embryonic stem cells derived from parthenotes — embryo - like structures formed when an egg starts to divide on its own, with no sperm involved.

THE world's first cloned human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are here, but they can't yet be used to grow tissues for transplant because they have an extra set of chromosomes.

The world's first chimeric monkeys were created in a laboratory last year, and they offer surprising new insights into embryonic stem cell therapy: One reason for often - poor treatment outcomes may be that we're using embryos that are, strangely, just too old.

In the decade since the first human embryonic stem cells were isolated, the science surrounding stem cells has grown dramatically.

Amid all this, are you still trying to achieve your first dream, harvesting embryonic stem cells from human clones?

This Korean researcher racked up a series of important advances in embryonic stem cell technology, including the first lines of cells from patients

This will mark the start of the first clinical trial in China using human embryonic stem (ES) cells, and the first one worldwide aimed at treating Parkinson's disease using ES cells from fertilized embryos.

In 1983, Beddington set up her own lab at Oxford and became one of the first scientists to demonstrate that embryonic stem cells can give rise to any tissue found in a developed body.

A U.S. - based company has received permission to start Europe's first clinical trial involving human embryonic stem (hES) cells.

UC announced yesterday that it is the first research institution to seek to «intervene,» or become a party in the case, in which the government is appealing a lower court's ruling that National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to study human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) violates federal law.

The embryos, on average, had just 0.2 % of carried - over mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and the resulting embryonic stem cells at first harboured similarly minuscule levels.

Karim Nayernia of the University of Newcastle, UK, and his colleagues treated male embryonic stem cells (ESCs) with a range of substances, which converted them first into germline stem cells and then into spermatogonial stem cells.

The new finding brings a measure of closure to a story that first rocked the science world in February 2004, when Hwang and colleagues at Seoul National University announced they had cloned a female donor's cell by transferring its nucleus into one of her egg cells stripped of its nucleus in a procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), and harvested embryonic stem cells from the resulting fusion.

An ambitious plan to map the genome's regulatory elements will focus first on mouse embryonic stem cells.

Other researchers had successfully used a similar process to turn skin cells into embryonic - like cells called induced pluripotent stem cells, and then grow those iPS cells into nerve cells, but Wernig's lab was the first to convert skin cells directly into nerve cells without the intermediate iPS cell step.

The next year, the first human embryonic - stem - cell paper came out.