Sentences with phrase «from embryonic cells»

Tooth development is the complex process by which teeth form from embryonic cells, grow, and erupt into the mouth.

The reprogrammed cells are «almost indistinguishable» from embryonic cells, says stem cell researcher Alex Meissner, part of the Whitehead team, which has published its results online today in Nature alongside those of Yamanaka's group.

A tooth grown from embryonic cells has been successfully transplanted into the jaw of a mouse.

Other researchers have previously cloned animals, including mammals, by transferring nuclei from embryonic cells into such enucleated eggs.

Indeed, researchers at the Oregon Regional Primate Center in Beaverton, Ore., have announced that they have cloned monkeys from embryonic cells, and researchers have known for some years how to apply a similar technique to clone cows and rabbits.

The ban came a few hours after Pharming on 26 February announced the births of Holly and Belle — two calves cloned from embryonic cells — and applies only to work at Pharming.

Until now, cows have been cloned almost exclusively from embryonic cells, which are difficult to maintain in the lab and are less amenable than fetal cells — which have not specialized into distinct organs — to genetic tinkering.

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James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin and Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto, Japan, discovered a way to produce embryonic stem cells directly from adult cells.

Two new papers have just been published documenting further advances with induced pluripotent stem cells --- stem cells that are «embryonic - like» but that are not derived from embryos.

2 - The embryonic stage: Basic organs begin to emerge from the cell layers.

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

Not surprisingly, President Obama received high marks from the journal, largely because his response to the question of whether he would lift Bush's ban on the federal funding of new embryonic stem - cell lines is in line with the view of most in the scientific community.

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.

The cell nuclei are removed from both sets of embryonic cells, as shown in the diagram, the donor's nuclei and the remains of the parents» embryo are destroyed and the parents» nuclei are then inserted into the donor or «host» embryo, still containing its healthy mitochondria.

Well it seems like Ivan can relax, Michael Peroski has just solved all of our problems: Proceeding from ideology - driven inquiry entails starting from an answer: «Research on human embryonic stem cell should be forbidden because embryos are equivalent to human lives» and working....

The ultimate goal of our laboratory is to generate ES - like cells directly from somatic cells by nuclear reprogramming... which converts adult cells back into embryonic state.

A very significant step away from embryonic stem - cell research was taken recently when a previously forthright advocate of such research softened his stance on other ethical alternatives.

On his website he writes: «Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent stem cells derived from inner cell mass of mammalian blastocysts.

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).

Less incredible, and perhaps only to be expected, is the news that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, the dynamic duo who brought The Lord of the Rings to the silver screen, have donated $ 310,000 from the movie's profits to fund human embryonic stem - cell research.

(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.)

A pluripotent state makes the resulting cells indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells, and the scientists got these cells without creating or destroying any embryos.

For example, ten or twenty years from now, the physician's tools may include embryonic stem cells or products obtained from cloned embryos and fetuses gestated for that purpose, making physicians who provide such treatments complicit in the life destruction required to obtain the modalities.

While scientists have previously had success in 3D printing a range of human stem cell cultures developed from bone marrow or skin cells, a team from Scotland's Heriot - Watt University claims to be the first to print the more delicate, yet more flexible, human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).

Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner, talked about Catholic dissent from the Pope's hardline, intolerant opposition to liberation theology, women's rights, gay equality, contraception, fertility treatment, embryonic stem cell research and the Pope's collusion with Holocaust deniers and appeasers.

From the embryonic stem cells, the researchers produced a type of tissue called retinal pigment epithelium (RPE).

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.

Da Cruz and his team grew replacement RPE cells from human embryonic stem cells on a thin plastic scaffold, before transplanting the tissue into the back of each volunteer's eye.

Two people with severe sight loss can now see well enough to read after receiving tissue grown from human embryonic stem cells.

Human embryonic stem cells typically come from fertilized eggs.

Trials of cells made from human embryonic stem cells are also poised to begin in people with type 1 diabetes and heart failure, the first time embryonic stem cells have been used in the treatment of major lethal diseases.

The researchers say that they can grow the stomach organoids from both embryonic stem cells and skin cells induced to pluripotency.

Some scientists had claimed that the lymphatic system was derived from specialized stem cells called angioblasts, whereas others had argued that it originated by the differentiation of pre-existing embryonic veins.

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.

For example, a consortium of research groups called the London Project to Cure Blindness aims to test RPE transplants from embryonic stem cells in patients with macular degeneration this year.

Now, a collaborative team of scientists at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a new process to generate NP - like cells from hiPSCs, one that truly goes back to the beginning and mimics the process of embryonic development.

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».

The production of virus - free iPS cells, albeit from embryonic fibroblasts, addresses a critical safety concern for potential use of iPS cells in regenerative medicine.

Advanced Cell Technology, based in Santa Monica California, is developing embryonic stem cell therapies for macular degeneration and other conditions using cells obtained non-destructively from an early embryo called a blastocCell Technology, based in Santa Monica California, is developing embryonic stem cell therapies for macular degeneration and other conditions using cells obtained non-destructively from an early embryo called a blastoccell therapies for macular degeneration and other conditions using cells obtained non-destructively from an early embryo called a blastocyst.

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.

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

To get more cells, researchers from Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., grew clusters of human embryonic cells in a precise cocktail of growth factors and other cell - regulating chemicals that took several years to work out, says Robert Lanza, the firm's vice president of research and scientific developmCell Technology in Worcester, Mass., grew clusters of human embryonic cells in a precise cocktail of growth factors and other cell - regulating chemicals that took several years to work out, says Robert Lanza, the firm's vice president of research and scientific developmcell - regulating chemicals that took several years to work out, says Robert Lanza, the firm's vice president of research and scientific development.

Then his team turned to liver cells, which seemed from previous reprogramming experiments to be easier to send back to an embryonic state.

«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.

But the factor that may make the discovery very significant is that umbilical cord blood can be saved, stored and multiplied without any of the ethical dilemmas facing embryonic stem cell use, which are derived from human fetuses.

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.

Consequently, a fundamental argument against using embryonic stem cells and therapeutic cloning can not be derived from existing constitutional law and additional court decisions.

In these instances, the committee says, the use of existing embryonic cell lines derived from embryos fewer than 14 days old should be considered before resorting to the use of cells taken from surplus in vitro fertilization embryos fewer than 14 days old.

* Note from Next Wave's German editor: Current German law prohibits the production of embryonic stem cells, but has a loophole that allows their import.

Embryonic - like stem cells have been isolated from breast milk in large numbers.