Sentences with phrase «for fetal tissue research»
President Bill Clinton overturned the ban by executive order in 1993, and federal funding for fetal tissue research was formally authorized in a similar NIH bill passed later that year.
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Who does the work: Three Planned Parenthood health centers in three states (California, Washington, and Oregon) are involved in tissue donation — two for fetal tissue research and one for placenta research.
Among those who voted then to allow federal funding for fetal tissue research was now - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky.
State witnesses failed to present any proof showing Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast violated the law or altered abortion procedures for fetal tissue research purposes during the second day of court hearings challenging Texas officials» decision to cut off Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas, including Austin centers.
Given current U.S. law governing abortions, and the strong scientific case for fetal tissue research, a vote by Congress to restrict fetal tissue research would needlessly hamper science, while having no impact on abortion.
The National Institutes of Health awarded contracts totaling $ 76 million in 2014 to biomedical scientists for fetal tissue research.
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Human fetal tissue is in high demand from American biomedical research labs — whether for - profit, academic, or government.
Back in April 2001, the American Society for Cell Biology issued a two - page «talking points» memo, justifying the use of fetal tissue and cells in medical research.
«Human fetal tissue research has gone on for decades.
The Republican - led senate voted on a bill Monday to stop federally funding the organization in response to undercover videos that appear to show executives of the organization discussing the sale of fetal tissue for medical research.
How ardently he might try to influence administration policy regarding human fetal tissue research, which congressional Republicans have targeted for elimination since 2015, is far from clear.
The lingering of the fetal DNA, research suggests, may be a mixed blessing for a mom: The cells may benefit the mother's health — by promoting tissue repair and improving the immune system — but may also cause adverse effects, such as autoimmune reactions.
«Research using human fetal tissue is invaluable to scientific and medical communities worldwide that study and work on human development and disease,» said Hans Clevers, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), and a stem cell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 July.
The special panel was formed after the Center for Medical Progress, an antiabortion group, in 2015 released videos it had covertly filmed of interviews with senior Planned Parenthood physicians frankly discussing their provision of fetal tissue from abortions for medical research, which is legal under a 1993 federal law.
The House special panel, he claimed, had found «that there is an industry, selling fetal tissue for research, which operates outside the current laws governing ethical research.»
He uses neither fetal tissue nor primates in his research, and so is an unlikely target for pro-life groups or militant animal rights activists.
Currently, federal law allows the NIH to fund research on aborted fetal tissue but prohibits grants for any investigation that harms a human embryo.
In the current study, lead authors David V. Hansen, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow, and Jan H. Lui, a graduate student in the Kriegstein lab, examined the OSVZ, using new labeling and tracking techniques to follow individual cells and their progeny over time in cultured tissue slices from fetal cortex tissue that had been donated for research.
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Biochemist Thomas Baldwin, president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, in a letter to the House and Senate appropriations committees, wrote that «research using fetal tissue and embryonic stem cells advances scientific knowledge, improves human health, and saves lives.»
ONE - PARENT SAMPLE SET PARENTAL GUIDANCE RULES: Maternally methylated (red dots) and paternally methylated (blue dots) regions across the human autosomal chromosomes, based on studies of uniparental disomy samplesGENOME RES, 24:554 - 69, 2014 RESEARCHERS Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Division Chief, Department of Maternal - Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan; David Monk, Principal Investigator, Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research ORGANISM Human METHODS Bisulfite - seq; bisulfite - chip Methylation is typically associated with the silencing of the nonexpressed allele, making it a convenient marker for imprinted genes, though it's possible for patterns of differential methylation to exist in tissues where both alleles are expressed.
In light of the scientific progress since 2001, the restrictions now proposed by Congress raise an important question: Is fetal tissue genuinely important for medical research?
Women and families who make the decision to donate fetal tissue for lifesaving scientific research should be honored, not attacked and demeaned.
In two states, Planned Parenthood offers patients the option to donate fetal tissue for important medical research — research that has led to medical breakthroughs, such as vaccines and treatment for diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.
Supporters have said the videos in question were produced to distort the issue of fetal - tissue donations made by the group for scientific research, and the legitimate reimbursements Planned Parenthood receives to cover the costs of those donations.
The current uproar was ignited when an antiabortion activist, posing as a biomedical research company representative, captured on video — which he then edited in the most misleading way possible — discussions by Planned Parenthood physicians of the procedures they use (when recovering specific fetal organ tissues) and the cost ($ 30 to $ 100 to reimburse for costs).
It's been said over and over again — in the news, in the New England Journal of Medicine, in a letter from over 40 of the nation's leading medical institutions — that fetal tissue samples are unlike any other cell research, helping scientists find cures for a host of diseases.
Meanwhile, groups looking for possible cures for devastating diseases, and seeing potential breakthroughs in other countries, urged Congress to cancel a federal funding ban on fetal tissue research imposed by Reagan and continued under President George H.W. Bush.
Protesters rally on the steps of the Texas state capitol on July 28 to condemn the use of fetal tissue for medical research.
If Republicans are genuinely outraged about the Planned Parenthood videos, perhaps they should revisit the federal law that makes legal such harvesting of fetal tissue for research.
Planned Parenthood is under virulent attack for the role a small portion of its affiliates play in helping women who want to donate fetal tissue for medical research.