Sentences with phrase «foetal stem»
He was featured last April in a segment that included Michael J. Fox - who suffers from Parkinson's disease and is an avid supporter of foetal stem - cell research through his charitable foundation.
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The difficulties associated with obtaining nerve tissue at the correct stage of development and differentiation from aborted embryos means that foetal tissue transplantation is no longer in favour, but the creation of human embryos specifically as sources of stem cells, and the push to use «spare» embryos from IVF treatments is gatheringmomentum.
Adult stem cells are likely to be more effective, less risky and, of course, less controversial than their foetal counterparts.
Research involving the derivation and use of stem cells from cadaveric foetal tissues is permissible, subject to the informed consent of the tissue donor.
Various cell types have been examined for use in RPE cell replacement including immortalized cell lines, such as the human RPE cell line, ARPE19 [2], sheets of adult RPE [3], foetal RPE [4], RPE derived from human embryonic stem cells (HESC - RPE)[5]--[10] and many non-RPE cells lines [11]--[15].