Sentences with phrase «for embryonic stem»

Yes, George W. Bush refused federal funding for embryonic stem - cell research, but that hardly put a stop to it (and not much changed after Barack Obama reversed the policy).

An example: «Yes, George W. Bush refused federal funding for embryonic stem - cell research, but that hardly put a stop to it (and not much changed after Barack Obama reversed the policy).»

Studies have identified transcription factors such as Stat3, Nanog, and Oct4 as being necessary for embryonic stem (ES) cell self - renewal and maintenance of pluripotency.

But pro-life groups are strongly opposing the vote because the ballot measure, if approved, will force residents to pay for embryonic stem cell research with their tax dollars.

EVEN AS the U.S. senate debates on expanding federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, it may be remembered that the claims professed in many papers of adult stem cells becoming any specialised cells should be taken with a pinch of salt.

As the debate rages in Washington, research continues outside the U.S. and in states that provide money or grants for embryonic stem - cell research.

The battle between Bush and Congress comes as polls show growing support for embryonic stem - cell research.

On March 9, 2009, President Obama lifted the ban that had previously restricted the use of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research on cell lines that had been created after August 9, 2001.

The legislation would have eased restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem - cell research.

There are currently no clinically approved treatments for embryonic stem cells.

A genome - scale RNAi screen for Oct4 modulators defines a role of the Paf1 complex for embryonic stem cell identity.

Bush sought to honor the spirit, if not, perhaps, the letter, of Dickey - Wicker by providing funding for embryonic stem - cell research without incentivizing further embryo destruction.

To begin with, demand for embryonic stem cells will continue in the near future.

And in a way, this is not very radical because that's what Bush said in August of 2001 when he became the first president to authorize federal funds for embryonic stem cell research.

And yet again, when presented with the case for embryonic stem cell research primarily on the grounds of curing disease, the respondents expressed support.

First, promising to restore the integrity of science while seeking vast medical benefits for many, President Obama repealed the restrictions set by President Bush on the use of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research.

The count for embryonic stem cells is zero.

It is not known how long it will take for embryonic stem cells to become a useful therapy or whether they will ever directly do so.

The rise of these iPS cells has reduced the need for embryonic stem cells — which have long caused ethical concerns for some — and iPS cells now form the basis for most of today's stem cell research.

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.

The researchers discovered that this region is required to both turn Sox2 on, and for the embryonic stem cells to maintain their characteristic appearance and ability to differentiate into all the cell types of the adult organism.

The results point to indirect genomic regulatory mechanisms which are important for embryonic stem cells and maintain gene expression, say Riikka Lund and Riitta Lahesmaa.

Recently, however, I was alarmed to hear that my fellow Delawareans voted to oust Representative Mike Castle, a solid moderate who pushed for embryonic stem cell research and was handily elected as the Republican representative of a largely Democratic state for nine consecutive terms, in favor of Christine O'Donnell, who, as far as I can tell, is a houseplant.

The president has lifted the Bush restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

Many scientists credit it with providing a safe harbor for embryonic stem cell research, which has often come under political attack, and boosting stem cell research more broadly.

They then argue that «By creating a financial incentive for embryonic stem cell research — an incentive that by NIH's own admission involves investments of «hundreds of millions of dollars» — and by specifying the precise means by which embryos must be destroyed in order to qualify for federal funding, the NIH necessarily and knowingly subjects embryos to a substantial risk of injury or death.»

Researchers at Geron, meanwhile, had successfully derived neurons from human embryonic stem cells and were pursuing research that would eventually look to repair the damage caused by spinal - cord injuries, a possible use for embryonic stem cells that was much touted at the time.

President Obama is poised to issue an executive order this week reversing Bush administration limits on federal financing for embryonic stem - cell research.

In 2005, before a Congressional hearing in the U.S., Prof. George Q. Daley of Harvard spoke forcefully and influentially about the necessity for embryonic stem - cell research to go ahead, and dismissed suggestions that one could work instead with «induced pluripotent stem cells» («iPS», i.e. stem cells reprogrammed from some cells of a living adult).

Sullivan went on to suggest that Chaput is using a double standard in the 2008 election by criticizing Catholic supporters of Barack Obama, while turning a blind eye to John McCain's support for embryonic stem cell research.

• President Obama did not go half far enough in lifting the ban against federal funding for embryonic stem - cell research.

What do you think of President Obama's decision to increase federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research?

Not exact matches

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 truth, of course, is that there are no human embryonic stem - cell therapies even in clinical trial, let alone ready for therapy, and there have been no major treatment....

Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together with pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem - cell research, and attempts at human cloning.

For instance, a strong resolution opposing embryonic stem cell research, which destroys human lives, passed with 97 percent support.

research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in the public imagination.

Just don't try telling me tomorrow you are for gay rights and embryonic stem cell research and we'll both be consistent

Scientists looking for new methods to make human tissue have successfully used cloning technology to create embryonic stem cells from skin cells.

Attempts have been made to bridge this divide by proposing alternative sources of embryonic stem cells for research and therapeutic purposes.

For most in the scientific community, the debate was never truly about whether adult stem cells or embryonic stem cells would be the most useful therapeutically or whether we could obtain embryonic - like stem cells without destroying embryos.

However, embryonic stem cells remain the «gold standard,» and studies of all types of stem cells should continue in parallel for the foreseeable future.»

Let us be thankful that a tool for discrediting the pro-life movement (shaming us for opposing magical cures promised by embryonic stem - cell research) has itself been taken out of their hands.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allowed a contract for the dissemination of embryonic stem cell lines approved for US government funding to lapse, shuttering a key stem cell bank, and doubling the price researchers pay for samples of some human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line... from $ 500 per vial of frozen cells to $ 1,000.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Yet just such an unlikely resolution may be in hand for one of the most acrimonious conflicts of recent times: the debate over human embryonic stem cells....

Interestingly, none of the opponents of embryonic stem cell research have called for research programs that might increase the odds of embryo survival.

He decreed that the case brought by researchers Drs James Sherley and Theresa Deisher, along with a number of Christian groups including the Christian Medical Association, should be heard; and ordered an injunction temporarily blocking federal funding allocated for human - embryonic - stem - cell research.

The increasing use of in - vitro - fertilisation techniques, and the emergence of new possibilities involving human cloning, mixing of human and animal genetic elements, and the use of embryonic stem cells for research, among other things, brought the need for further teaching.

(In many ways it is worse than when John Edwards said in 2004 that if people voted for John Kerry, people like Christopher Reeve would get out of their wheelchairs and walk from embryonic stem cell therapies.)