Sentences with phrase «from embryonic stem cells for»

Last week British scientists announced that they had created sperm cells from embryonic stem cells for the first time.

In addition, we use our expertise to facilitate the development of functionally mature beta cells from embryonic stem cells for cell replacement therapies of type 1 diabetes.

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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.

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).

(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.)

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 modalitiFor 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 modalitifor that purpose, making physicians who provide such treatments complicit in the life destruction required to obtain the modalities.

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.

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.

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».

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.

«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.

In addition, where cells derived from embryonic stem cells are great at proliferating — a potentially critical feature if one wants to grow sufficient numbers of cells for clinical use — ones from the iPS lines were much feebler.

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.

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.

► On Wednesday at ScienceInsider, Tania Rabesandratana reported from Brussels that the European Commission has denied a request by a citizens» initiative to «block E.U. funding for research using embryonic stem cells.»

«We can work with any embryonic stem cell line from any source and are not restricted to working with the very small number of federally approved lines as is the case for researchers in the United States,» says Minger.

Researchers already envision transplanting ready - made embryonic stem cells back into people, providing cures for a huge range of diseases, from diabetes to paralysis to Alzheimer's.

Plus, hopes for therapeutic cloning rest on the ability to produce embryonic stem cells from cells harvested from diseased patients.

Further investigation, says Resar, showed that these unusual properties arise from the ability of HMGA1 to turn on several genes involved in the Wnt pathway, a network of proteins necessary for embryonic development and stem cell activity.

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.

For the purpose of additional experiments, the researchers generated myocardial cells from embryonic stem cells and human skin cells, in collaboration with the lab headed by Prof Dr Jürgen Hescheler at the University of Cologne.

At the University of Washington, Hannele Ruohola - Baker, professor of biochemistry and associate director of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Julie Mathieu, acting instructor and Henrik Sperber, graduate student, withdraw embryonic stem cell lines from liquid nitrogen storStem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Julie Mathieu, acting instructor and Henrik Sperber, graduate student, withdraw embryonic stem cell lines from liquid nitrogen storCell and Regenerative Medicine, Julie Mathieu, acting instructor and Henrik Sperber, graduate student, withdraw embryonic stem cell lines from liquid nitrogen storstem cell lines from liquid nitrogen storcell lines from liquid nitrogen storage.

(This report, which Harvard biologist Eggan calls the «Human Embryonic Stem Cell Misinformation Packet,» prompted a corrective letter from Harvard biologists, who claimed that the White House misrepresented their research for political reasons.)

«Giant leap for diabetes: From human embryonic stem cells to billions of human insulin producing cells.»

«Use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology» — which involves taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming them into embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease — «makes it possible to model dementias that affect people later in life,» says senior study author Catherine Verfaillie of KU Leuven.

In 2004 Blackburn and ethicist William F. May made headlines when the Bush administration ousted them from the President's Council on Bioethics for their strong public support of human embryonic stem cell research.

These stem cells, which are similar to highly sought - after embryonic stem cells but derived from adult cells and then reprogrammed, could be turned into the cell types needed for research, including neurons and intestinal and fat cells.

The result — the second such finding in the past year — suggests that similar cells from human testicles might have similar powers, paving the way to creating replacement tissue for men who have suffered damage from heart attacks or other injuries and avoiding some of the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cells (ESC).

Last December, for instance, Chien's group reported finding markers for heart muscle stem cells by tracing their development from embryonic tissue.

The new approach builds on information gleaned from developmental studies of embryonic stem cells (see story # 16) and one day may be used to create healthy replacements for harmed or diseased tissue.

Renee Reijo Pera, a biologist at Stanford's Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, points out that earlier attempts to create offspring with sperm from embryonic stem cells resulted in short - lived mouse pups that were either giants or midgStem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, points out that earlier attempts to create offspring with sperm from embryonic stem cells resulted in short - lived mouse pups that were either giants or midgstem cells resulted in short - lived mouse pups that were either giants or midgets.

Scientists from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered that NANOG, an essential gene for embryonic stem cells, also regulates cell division in stratified epithelia — those that form part of the epidermis of the skin or cover the esophagus or the vagina — in adult organisms.

Scientists have already reported progress in growing precursor cells for eggs and sperm from both iPS and embryonic stem cell lines.

Niakan and colleagues predicted from earlier work with mice and human embryonic stem cells that the protein OCT4 would be necessary for the epiblast cells to develop correctly.

One is using cells derived from human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injury (although funding problems have stopped the trial enrolling new patients) and another is testing a treatment for age - related macular degeneration.

Best known for his Superman films, Reeve had long advocated research into embryonic stem cells to repair the kind of spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the neck down after a horseback riding accident 10 years ago.

Scientists have created red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, in a step that they say could mean an infinite source of blood for transfusions.

Next, the team used both human embryonic NPCs and human NPCs generated from stem cells to tweak the protocol for human use.

Still, the genetic homogeneity of largely inbred mouse strains may be misleading when it comes to understanding human stem cells, cautions Peter Andrews, professor of biomedical science and co-director of the Centre for Stem Cell Biology at the University of Sheffield, U.K. «In the human, every embryonic stem cell that we're working with that comes from a different person is genetically different,» says Andrstem cells, cautions Peter Andrews, professor of biomedical science and co-director of the Centre for Stem Cell Biology at the University of Sheffield, U.K. «In the human, every embryonic stem cell that we're working with that comes from a different person is genetically different,» says AndrStem Cell Biology at the University of Sheffield, U.K. «In the human, every embryonic stem cell that we're working with that comes from a different person is genetically different,» says AndrCell Biology at the University of Sheffield, U.K. «In the human, every embryonic stem cell that we're working with that comes from a different person is genetically different,» says Andrstem cell that we're working with that comes from a different person is genetically different,» says Andrcell that we're working with that comes from a different person is genetically different,» says Andrews.

There is promising news today for those who hope to turn the potential of undifferentiated stem cells into medical miracles: Researchers are reporting a way to produce insulin - producing cells from mouse embryonic stem cells.

Since its inception, CIRM has sought to create a system from the ground up for funding research on human embryonic stem cells to fill in the gaps left by federal funding restrictions (ScienceNOW, 12 April).

Expanding from their previous studies with mice, the researchers first established that under specific conditions, culturing human embryonic stem cells with fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) leads to neural differentiation particular to the midbrain / hindbrain region — the location of the cerebellum — within three weeks, and the expression of markers for the cerebellar plate neuroepithelium — the part of the developing nervous system specific for the cerebellum — within five.

His recent published work describes the rescued visual function in animals using retinal pigment epithelial cells derived from human embryonic stem cells and a method for deriving stem cells using a single - cell approach that does not harm embryos.

For the first time, through the use of human embryonic stem cells (hES) sourced from pre-implantation diagnosis, researchers from Inserm's Institute for Stem Cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic Diseases (I - Stem) have successfully identified the previously unknown mechanisms involved in Steinert» disease, also known as type 1 myotonic dystropFor the first time, through the use of human embryonic stem cells (hES) sourced from pre-implantation diagnosis, researchers from Inserm's Institute for Stem Cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic Diseases (I - Stem) have successfully identified the previously unknown mechanisms involved in Steinert» disease, also known as type 1 myotonic dystrostem cells (hES) sourced from pre-implantation diagnosis, researchers from Inserm's Institute for Stem Cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic Diseases (I - Stem) have successfully identified the previously unknown mechanisms involved in Steinert» disease, also known as type 1 myotonic dystropfor Stem Cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic Diseases (I - Stem) have successfully identified the previously unknown mechanisms involved in Steinert» disease, also known as type 1 myotonic dystroStem Cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic Diseases (I - Stem) have successfully identified the previously unknown mechanisms involved in Steinert» disease, also known as type 1 myotonic dystroStem) have successfully identified the previously unknown mechanisms involved in Steinert» disease, also known as type 1 myotonic dystrophy.

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February 2010 - Italian stem cell scientists challenge goverment EuroSyStem scientist Elena Cattaneo challenges Italian government - the story continues In the summer of 2009, three Italian stem celli scientists unsuccessfully challenged their government in the courts over its decision to exclude human embryonic stem cell research from a ministerial funding call for projects on stem cell biology.