Sentences with phrase «for human embryonic stem cells»

His laboratory recently demonstrated a novel use of a specific gene - targeting technique for human embryonic stem cells.

Lamberth, who ordered a temporary ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cells research last August that an appeals court later overturned, is expected to issue a final ruling on the matter as soon as this summer.

I don't think we need the same level of regulation as for human embryonic stem cells, for example, because we are not using any embryos.

One of the best talks of this conference was given by Dr. Renee Reijo Pera, Professor and Director of the Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research at Stanford University.

On March 9, AAAS thanked President Obama for his executive order on federal support for human embryonic stem cell research and for his memorandum on scientific integrity.

«I think this is the best option we have ever had,» says Renee Reijo Pera, director of Stanford University's Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education in California, who wasn't involved in the study.

A Washington, D.C., judge said this afternoon that his ruling 2 weeks ago, halting all federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, will stand while the case moves forward.

In the latest twist in an increasingly complex legal struggle, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has appealed a judge's refusal on Tuesday to remove the ban on funding for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research.

«We are in an era where the primary issues are not federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research,» wrote CAMR President Amy Comstock Rick, who is also CEO of the Parkinson's Action Network, in an e-mail to the more than 100 patient advocacy, scientific, and other groups that belong to CAMR.

«We saw better germ - cell differentiation in this transplantation model than we've ever seen,» said Renee Reijo Pera, PhD, former director of Stanford's Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education.

The third and most recent round of grants awarded earlier this year for stem cell research by the state of Minnesota tracks a pattern established with the two earlier rounds of grants: a noticeable lack of support for human embryonic stem cell research.

This was the position taken by then President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), the first presidential bioethics panel to recommend federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR).

The excitement surrounding cellular reprogramming and the possibility of federal funding for human embryonic stem cell (ESC) research in the US could be overshadowing another promising therapeutic source of stem cells: those derived via parthenogenesis, some researchers say.

Affiliations Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

«It is likely we'll have a key decision from the appeals court on whether Dickey - Wicker allows federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.»

As Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney once advocated for human embryonic stem cell research.

Affiliation Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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....

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.

Although he never banned this research outright, President Bush limited federal funding for research to the embryonic stem cell lines that existed before August 2001, thus drawing a line at destroying human embryos created after that date.

The researchers detected this SMN long noncoding RNA, or lnc - RNA (pronounced «link RNA») for short, in human embryonic kidney cells, brain cell samples and neurons derived from the stem cells of healthy people and those with spinal muscular atrophy type I and II.

Decades after they were discovered, human embryonic stem cells are being trialled as a treatment for two major diseases: heart failure and type 1 diabetes

Faced with an often - hostile Congress, Obama enacted many of his signature policies by executive order — from reversing restrictions on research with human embryonic stem cells to helping communities prepare for climate change.

The study results were found using mouse embryonic stem cells, which are good cell models for the study of processes seen in human stem cells.

In granting an injunction to two scientists who oppose widening US government funding for research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), Judge Royce Lamberth wrote of «simply preserving the status quo».

Oliver Brüstle, director of the Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology at the University of Bonn, Germany, who had a patent on a method for generating neurons from human embryonic stem cells rejected by the court, called the ruling «the worst possible outcome», and «a disaster for Europe».

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.

ACT's announcement stoked fears that scientists were trying to clone humans for reproductive purposes — and conflated reproductive cloning and human - embryonic - stem - cell research in many people's minds.

«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.

For example, animal studies have shown that neurons derived in the lab from human embryonic stem cells improve Parkinson's symptoms; however, any residual stem cells associated with those neurons could form masses of unwanted cells.

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.

«Human embryonic stem cells remain the gold standard for pluripotency,» Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said at the hearing.

The patch is made of eye cells made from human embryonic stem cells, and it has been designed for treating the «dry» form of macular degeneration, which accounts for 90 per cent of all cases, and affects 1.7 million people in the US.

Human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research had been backed by federal funds for more than a decade, but a surprise August injunction by a federal judge threw the field's future into question.

«It's an exciting development, and we await the outcome over the next year to see how well these cells integrate, and if there are any potential adverse reactions,» says Mike Cheetham of the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London, one site where research is under way into a human embryonic stem - cell treatment for AMD.

But a number of the invited speakers, including Alan Trounson, president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in San Francisco, and keynote speaker George Daley, a stem - cell scientist at Children's Hospital Boston in Massachusetts, are involved in research using human embryonic stem cells, which the Catholic Church considers unethical.

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.

Scientists anticipate that they'll be able to use iPS cells for much of the research they have been planning with human embryonic stem (ES) cells.

The laboratory process, described in the journal Scientific Reports, entails genetically modifying a line of human embryonic stem cells to become fluorescent upon their differentiation to retinal ganglion cells, and then using that cell line for development of new differentiation methods and characterization of the resulting cells.

So bear with me for a minute on a couple of very broad themes that I think human embryonic stem cells opened the door to.»

In this way they act like embryonic stem cells and share their revolutionary therapeutic potential — and as such, they could eliminate the need for using and then destroying human embryos.

Finding may enhance understanding of human embryonic stem cells and lead to better models for regenerative therapies

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.