Sentences with phrase «funded stem cell studies»

Dr. Glenn Olah, president of the Winn Feline Foundation, notes that since 2013, Winn has also funded stem cell studies to treat feline asthma and kidney disease.

Not exact matches

Although the U.S. government puts stringent restrictions on funding for research on embryonic stem cells, individual states such as California have set up institutes to perform that work and general stem cell studies.

Dr Lee Campbell, Research Projects and Science Communications Manager at Cancer Research Wales, who part - fund the study, commented: «This is an exciting breakthrough as cancer stem cells are thought to be responsible for the failure of many cancer treatments and the re-emergence of cancers, often many years after the initial disease.

This is the conclusion reached by a study with mice funded through the National Research Programme «Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine» (NRP 63).

The EPSRC - funded study, published in Biomacromolecules and undertaken by University of Bristol researchers, explored the feasibility of using natural fibres such as silk and cellulose as stem cell scaffolds — the matrix to which stem cells can cling to as they grow.

The study was funded by grants from Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany; National Institutes of Health (EY018213, EY001919, EY020846, DK042394, DK088227, and HL052173); Foundation Fighting Blindness; National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital; NHS Foundation Trust; UCL Institute of Ophthalmology; Fight For Sight; Moorfields Eye Hospital Special Trustees; and Barbara & Donald Jonas Laboratory of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Bernard & Shirlee Brown Glaucoma Laboratory, the Joan and Michael Schneeweiss Stem Cell Fund and Research to Prevent Blindness.

When politicians want to cut funding, he notes, they focus on specific controversial studies or areas — such as climate change, stem cells or genetically modified organisms.

In their lawsuit, plaintiffs James Sherley and Theresa Deisher claim that NIH's funding of hESC research diverts funds from other work and harms their chances of winning a grant to study adult stem cells.

Pro-embryo groups and others, including two scientists who study adult stem cells, argued that the NIH guidelines violated the Dickey - Wicker Amendment, a 16 - year - old law banning federal funds for «research in which... embryos are destroyed.»

Controversial studies of animals containing human stem cells could be funded if they pass agency ethics review

UC announced yesterday that it is the first research institution to seek to «intervene,» or become a party in the case, in which the government is appealing a lower court's ruling that National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to study human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) violates federal law.

For example, FASEB took no position this year on federal funding of human stem cell research, while ASCB lobbied intensely in favor of government backing for the controversial studies.

Shortly after his inauguration, Bush ordered a review of the current National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy, which allows the funding of embryonic stem cell studies as long as researchers receive the cells from privately funded researchers who have derived them in accord with a set of ethical guidelines (ScienceNOW, 23 August 2000).

In an emphatic letter published today in Science, 11 researchers argue that NIH should reverse its decision against funding studies in which scientists implant human stem cells into early, nonhuman embryos.

What Collins does not say, however, is that the new NIH guidelines also allow for federal funds to be used in studying new human embryonic stem cell lines that are created (by private entities, of course) beyond the 700 currently in existence.

The study was funded by Florida State University; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (grant numbers AI119530 and AI111250), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (grant numbers NS048271, NS095348, NS047344, NS051630 and NS079625); and the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund.

In an NIH - funded study, scientists were able to direct human stem cells to form networks of tiny blood vessels that can connect to the existing circulation in mice.

Though Diamond's lab has received federal funding, he said researchers who have been cut out include those who study pregnancy, fetal development or neural stem cells.

If approved after a 30 - day comment period, the new policy would allow the National Institutes of Health to fund researchers who want to put stem cells in early - stage animal embryos to study disease, possible therapies and organ transplants.

The law does not appropriate funds specifically for research, but research centers may direct non-federal money to stem cell studies.

Funders The study was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (Project R01AR044031), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Muscular Dystrophy Canada, the Muscular Dystrophy Association (U.S.), the Stem Cell Network, the Canada Research Chairs program, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Swiss National Science Foundation and The Ottawa Hospital Foundation.

Pawlenty, Bush and other critics of the research propose funding studies on stem cells taken from adults rather than destroying embryos to harvest the cells.

An independent study last year found that state stem cell research funding supported more than 500 well - paying jobs.

Congresswoman Lois Capps addressed the benefits of these studies Wednesday for the Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee hearing on stem cell research in Washington, D.C., applauding researcher's diligence despite administration interventions prohibiting federally funded embryonic stem cell research.

The Broad Foundation Donates $ 25 Million To UCSF Stem Cell Program Because scientists were prohibited by President George W. Bush's stem cell policy from conducting these studies in federally funded buildings, UCSF scientists were forced to carry out their research in challenging circumstances — first in segregated space within an existing UCSF lab, later in rented space at an off - campus site and subsequently 40 miles away at Geron Corp., through a joint projStem Cell Program Because scientists were prohibited by President George W. Bush's stem cell policy from conducting these studies in federally funded buildings, UCSF scientists were forced to carry out their research in challenging circumstances — first in segregated space within an existing UCSF lab, later in rented space at an off - campus site and subsequently 40 miles away at Geron Corp., through a joint projCell Program Because scientists were prohibited by President George W. Bush's stem cell policy from conducting these studies in federally funded buildings, UCSF scientists were forced to carry out their research in challenging circumstances — first in segregated space within an existing UCSF lab, later in rented space at an off - campus site and subsequently 40 miles away at Geron Corp., through a joint projstem cell policy from conducting these studies in federally funded buildings, UCSF scientists were forced to carry out their research in challenging circumstances — first in segregated space within an existing UCSF lab, later in rented space at an off - campus site and subsequently 40 miles away at Geron Corp., through a joint projcell policy from conducting these studies in federally funded buildings, UCSF scientists were forced to carry out their research in challenging circumstances — first in segregated space within an existing UCSF lab, later in rented space at an off - campus site and subsequently 40 miles away at Geron Corp., through a joint project.