Sentences with phrase «for nuclear transfer»

And if the cells prove to be functional enough for nuclear transfer but not for producing offspring, they might refute one of the main arguments against therapeutic cloning: that it creates embryos only to destroy them.
«We think that differentiation is a way that opens some doors and makes it easier for nuclear transfer programming to go back into embryonic stem cells.»
Several studies have shown that enzymes that remove those methyl groups are crucial for nuclear transfer to work.

Not exact matches

The OAR proposal uses a variation of therapeutic cloning called altered nuclear transfer (ANT) in which the nucleus of a donor cell (a skin cell, for example), containing the 30,000 genes of the genetic code, is altered in such a way that it produces an epigenetic factor, a protein called nanog.
For example, the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty reads: Each nuclear - weapon State Party to the Treaty undertakes not to transfer to any recipient whatsoever nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty reads: Each nuclear - weapon State Party to the Treaty undertakes not to transfer to any recipient whatsoever nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over nuclear - weapon State Party to the Treaty undertakes not to transfer to any recipient whatsoever nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over nuclear explosive devices or control over such...
Ironically enough, the issue of «nuclear security» should be viewed as a consequence of the failure of the existing nuclear regime, proven to be incapable of controlling either the illicit transfer of nuclear technology or preventing the military use of nuclear material intended for peaceful purposes.
The licenses for the Nine Mile Point and Ginna nuclear power plants on Lake Ontario, along with two at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland, will be transferred from Constellation Energy to Exelon.
Although Ghana has no military use of its nuclear assets, options for scientific research into modern nuclear propelled submarine and aircraft carrier ships, design and development of same technology and its transfer from partner OECD for its military use are imminent.
Canada however was annoyed that India had violated a 1971 agreement between the two countries relating to the transfer of peaceful nuclear technology, and froze nuclear energy assistance to India for two years.
TWICE THE FUN Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, the first primates successfully cloned via somatic cell nuclear transfer, are healthy, playful and, so far, completely normal for baby macaques.
In the final analysis, it seems clear that Geron is not going for the obvious play, pairing stem cells and nuclear transfer to pursue human clones.
Transfers of casks from operating reactors could follow, and the report authors said that would help resolve a long - running court dispute over payments nuclear plant operators are required to make to the federal government in return for federal storage of the spent fuel — a bargain the federal government has not kept.
In fact, says Marburger, the majority of the lab's funding goes for work on the U.S. nuclear stockpile and won't be transferred to the new department.
Some scientists, such as Kevin Eggan at Harvard, were disappointed that NIH didn't open the door to the use of embryos created for research purposes — including through somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning) and parthenogenesis (from an unfertilized egg).
Stem cell researchers call them «a major step in the right direction,» although some were disappointed that NIH didn't open the door to the use of embryos created for research purposes — including through somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning) and parthenogenesis (from an unfertilized egg).
But they still want to be able to do cloning, otherwise know as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), because embryonic cells are the «gold standard» for pluripotent cells — cells that can become any cell type in the body.
Moreover, the authors suggest that states that provide subsidies to uneconomical nuclear reactors within their borders could also play a constructive role by making those subsidies available only for plants that agreed to carry out expedited transfer of spent fuel.
A microscopic method for simulating quantum mechanical, nuclear tunneling effects in biological electron transfer reactions is presented and applied to several electron transfer steps in photosynthetic bacterial reaction centers.
While Gurdon's tadpoles did not survive to grow into adult frogs, his experiment showed that the process of specialization in animal cells was reversible, and his technique of nuclear transfer paved the way for later cloning successes.
You are what you eat: a gene transfer ratchet could account for bacterial genes in eukaryotic nuclear genomes.
Outline title: «First live birth using human oocytes reconstituted by spindle nuclear transfer for mitochondrial DNA mutation causing Leigh syndrome» by J. Zhang et al. published in outline form by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine's Fertility and Sterility journal website.
Comparisons of genetically matched human pluripotent stem cells reveals that somatic cell nuclear transfer is the ideal means of generating cells for replacement therapy
«The paper is a meticulous dissection of all technical steps involved in the procedure of nuclear DNA transfer for clinical purposes of preventing mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) disease inheritance.
The basic process, called nuclear transfer, for making a cloned human embryo is the same as for other animals.
Although I am incredibly grateful for myself and for my lab, I am perhaps most excited about the mainstream message of support for stem cell research and somatic cell nuclear transfer that this award from the MacArthur Foundation sends.
Under terms of the contract, as amended in 1996, United States Enrichment Corporation (i) purchased the enrichment portion of the blended - down material and sold it to its electric utility customers for use in fabricating fuel for their commercial nuclear power plants, and (ii) transferred to TENEX a quantity of natural uranium equal to the natural uranium component of the low enriched uranium.
Our improved IVM culture conditions may be used for obtaining mature oocytes for clinical purposes and / or for derivation of embryonic stem cells following parthenogenesis or nuclear transfer.
Finally, he opened the door to funding research involving stem cell lines created by producing human embryos by somatic cell nuclear transfer or other means specifically for research in which they are killed.
The single - gene knockout fibroblasts were successfully used for somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) and resulted in live - born goats harboring biallelic mutations.
Thus, in the past five years, much of the scientific and ethical debate about somatic cell nuclear transfer has focused on its two potential applications: 1) for reproductive purposes, i.e., to produce a child, or 2) for producing a source of ES cells for research.
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GHM designs, manufactures and sells vacuum and heat transfer equipment and it also supplies components and raw materials for the nuclear power market.
As for Technological transfers, okay support President Bush in the Indian - USA nuclear pact, but oh Bush Derangment in the Democratic party dictates Bush must be blocked at all costs!
It allowed those hefty allowances to be sold or transferred to other power plants for a profit, however, ameliorating protests from nuclear generators — particularly newly born E.ON, which amassed ownership of 12 of the 19 reactors after the merger of Germany's biggest utilities, Veba and Viag.
Our recommendations include better enforcement of existing regulations, expedited transfer of nuclear waste into dry casks, strengthened reactor security requirements, and higher safety standards for new plants.
In addition, there is the fact that the AGW scam hotted up after the «green» anti-nuclear and Communist Moscow - based World Peace Council propaganda lobby transferred its attention from exaggerating nuclear war exaggerating nuclear war and downplaying deterrence and civil defence for political support of groupthink Marxism (censoring all deviants from groupthink convention) to CO2 scare - mongering, as Delingpole explains in Watermelons.
Inventor: Method and apparatus for load balancing trapped solar energy OTEC Counter-Current Heat Transfer System Global Warming Mitigation Method Subductive Waste Disposal Method Nuclear Assisted Hydrocarbon Production Method
1950s: Research on military applications of radar and infrared radiation promotes advances in radiative transfer theory and measurements = > Radiation math — Studies conducted largely for military applications give accurate values of infrared absorption by gases = > CO2 greenhouse — Nuclear physicists and chemists develop Carbon - 14 analysis, useful for dating ancient climate changes = > Carbon dates, for detecting carbon from fossil fuels in the atmosphere, and for measuring the rate of ocean turnover = > CO2 greenhouse — Development of digital computers affects many fields including the calculation of radiation transfer in the atmosphere = > Radiation math, and makes it possible to model weather processes = > Models (GCMs)-- Geological studies of polar wandering help provoke Ewing - Donn model of ice ages = > Simple models — Improvements in infrared instrumentation (mainly for industrial processes) allow very precise measurements of atmospheric CO2 = > CO2 greenhouse.
Mr. Matthews periodically speaks at industry conferences regarding nuclear asset transfer issues, new nuclear plant issues and FOCD issues, including conferences hosted by the American Nuclear Society, the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and the International Nuclear Lawyers Association nuclear asset transfer issues, new nuclear plant issues and FOCD issues, including conferences hosted by the American Nuclear Society, the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and the International Nuclear Lawyers Association nuclear plant issues and FOCD issues, including conferences hosted by the American Nuclear Society, the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and the International Nuclear Lawyers Association Nuclear Society, the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and the International Nuclear Lawyers Association Nuclear Lawyers Association (INLA).
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