Sentences with phrase «for human stem cell»

Through May 2013, the CIRM governing board has approved 611 research grants totaling $ 1.822 billion, making CIRM the largest source of funding for human stem cell research in the world.

Although the research was done in laboratory mice, the findings have possible implications for human stem cell transplants.

These findings have significant implications for both human stem cell transplantation and for radiation exposure.

«Our work illustrates that this exquisite control mechanism — regulated by PUS7 and pseudouridine — is critical to adjusting the amount of proteins needed for human stem cells to grow and produce blood,» says Cristian Bellodi.

Not exact matches

On the logistics end, it is easier to manufacture certain stem - cell therapies, which will be key for human trials like the heart - muscle - regeneration program.

For example, using 3 - D bioprinters — which can print the structure of human tissue with biodegradable material — and stem cells, which are used to populate the 3 - D printed structure, researchers can grow actually human tissue.

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.

Stem cell research using human embryos might mean new mornings for people like these — people you and I know by name.

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

The ANT - OAR proposal represent a scientifically and morally sound means of obtaining human pluripotent stem cells that does not compromise either the science or the deeply held moral convictions of those who oppose the destructive use of human embryos for research» which is a creative approach that can be embraced by both the anything - goes camp and the nothing - goes.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

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.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

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....

Stem cells can be obtained licitly, without loss of human life — for example, from an adult organism or from the blood of the umbilical cord at the time of birth.

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.

Stem cells can transform into any other human cells, so they have immense potential for generating all sorts of adult cells and thus can be used in research concerning human degenerative (and other) diseases.

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.

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.

Under the terms of the bill, the resultant embryo could only be stored for a maximum of 14 days to produce stem cells for research and could not be implanted in either a human or animal uterus.

As well as allowing the use of stem cells grown from established cell lines, the technology could enable the creation of improved human tissue models for drug testing and potentially even purpose - built replacement organs.

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.

Funding for this research came, in part, from the National Institutes of Health (1R01NS091010 - 01, 1R01DC014690 - 01), Japan Science and Technology Agency (PRESTO), Pew Charitable Trusts, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Human Frontier Science Program, McKnight Foundation and New York Stem Cell Foundation.

Famous for: Uses stem cells to grow human bone - potentially changing how surgeries are performed.

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.

Ian Wilmut talks about serendipity, shared credit and the messy — and very human — story behind the breakthrough that paved the way for stem cell therapies

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

«We've been hearing about their potential for more than a decade, but the results have always been in mice and rats, and no one has shown they're safe or effective in humans long term,» says Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the company that carried out the stem cell interventCell Technology in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the company that carried out the stem cell interventcell intervention.

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.

A strong supporter of human embryo stem cell research, the senator joined with hundreds of legislators from both parties after Ronald Reagan's death in a renewed plea for Bush to remove restrictions.

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.

«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.

So Daniel Anderson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology exposed human bone marrow stem cells to biodegradable nanoparticles carrying the human gene for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which attracts blood vessels to injury sites.

A team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has used a gene - editing tool known as CRISPR to repair the gene that causes sickle cell disease in human stem cells, which they say is a key step toward developing a gene therapy for the disorder.

Advocates of biomedical research, professional societies, and patient groups had mobilized to plead for a more careful review, warning that this bill's language was so vague it might hinder research on human stem cells and new medical therapies.

To hunt for drugs that target these cells, Piyush Gupta, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and colleagues genetically engineered ordinary human cells so that they acquired some of the properties of cancer stem cells, including being impervious to chemotherapy.

One patient, described in a paper in The Lancet, survived for 2 years after receiving the artificial trachea, which incorporated human stem cells.

Her PhD is focused on developing a novel label - free imaging approach for assessing human stem cells and skeletal regeneration non-destructively and non-invasively.

«I'm working with Professor Richard Oreffo and Dr Rahul Tare from the University's Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explaStem Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explCells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explastem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explcells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explains.

Previous research shows human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs)-- generated directly from adult cells — can express markers for a wide variety of cells, including those that secrete NP.

«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 now, Porteus and his team found that their corrected human hematopoietic stem cells seemed to behave like normal, healthy human hematopoietic stem cells.