Sentences with phrase «helps embryonic cells»

Schöler and his team looked at embryonic mouse clones that were just a few days old to see when and where the Oct4 gene — which helps embryonic cells decide where to go and what to do — is active.

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One can not help but be intrigued by the implications of the fact that these adult stem cells can be induced to «reprogram» themselves back to their beginning — all the way back to their embryonic beginning.

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.

Embryonic stem cells helped researchers develop other research tools, such as iPSCs, he pointed out.

Contributions from careful, sober - minded scientists can also help defuse controversy in fields that get headlines, such as climate change and embryonic stem cells.

Next, the research team will examine specifically whether these liver cells obtained from human embryonic stem cells in a dish help repair injured livers in preclinical animal models of liver disease.

They were interested in one of the cell's key signaling pathways, the MAPK pathway, which helps control cell growth, embryonic development, and the maturation of oocytes into eggs.

Normally, Nanog helps healthy embryonic stem cells maintain their undifferentiated, uncommitted (i.e., pluripotent) state.

Using a nuclear protein expressed in follicle stem cells (FSCs), the researchers found that castor, which plays an important role in specifying which types of brain cells are produced during embryonic development, also helps maintain FSCs throughout the life of the animal.

The results help fill in the scientific puzzle kicked off by Dolly's cloning, which proved that mammalian egg cells were capable of dissolving the genetic roadblocks that limit the potential of most adult cells to give rise to only a single type of tissue — that of the organ from which they hail — whereas embryonic stem cells have the potential to become virtually any kind of body tissue.

He has been making that point since 2004, when in testimony to the U.S. Senate, he warned embryonic stem cell opponent Sam Brownback of Kansas, «Those in a position of advice or authority who participate in the banning or enforced delays of biomedical research that could lead to the saving of lives and the amelioration of suffering are directly and morally responsible for the lives made worse or lost due to the ban, or even of a moratorium that would deny such treatments in that short window of time when it could help or save them.»

Stem cell researchers maintain that whatever the potential of adult stem cells, embryonic research could help them achieve it.

Wnt signals play a key role in directing stem cells during embryonic development, which led Geiger and colleagues to hypothesize that it might be helping to control stem cell growth and pluripotency in the gut later in life.

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Yong - Chun Yu at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and his team wondered if fearful adult mice could be helped by a transplant of embryonic brain cells.

In September the British Parliament funded an embryonic - stem - cell bank that may eventually store thousands of cell lines, which will help make Britain a leader in embryonic - stem - cell research.

This gene is also known to help human embryonic stem cells stay flexible enough to become any type of body cell, a property known as pluripotency.

After two earlier published attempts that led to early - stage embryos but not confirmed embryonic stem cells, Mitalipov and colleagues took steps to preserve a protein complex believed to help primate eggs restructure transplanted DNA, and employed a new imaging system to observe the egg's chromosomes directly instead of by staining them or using ultraviolet light, which might damage DNA.

Months to years after transplantation, retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells appear healthy — and may have unexpectedly helped vision in some recipients

Stem cell advocates say repeated votes by Congress — even if each will attract a veto — will help their eventual cause, and some hope Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA) will follow through on hints that he might put money in the 2008 budget for NIH to support work using embryonic stem cells.

It also seems to play a crucial role in the genetic activity of the embryonic cells, helping to genetic instructions to the cellular protein factories.

It also seems to play a crucial role in the genetic activity of the embryonic cells, helping to ferry genetic instructions to the cellular protein factories (Nature, doi.org/3wh).

The potential of iPS cells to help treat everything from damaged heart tissue to Parkinson's disease, has prompted intensive research that has looked into the use of skin fibroblast cells as an alternative to controversial embryonic stem cells.

Scientists argue that this technology, like cloning and embryonic stem cell research, has huge potential to help people.

It is to these cells that Zernicka - Goetz attributes her success, as she believes the trophoblast stem cells communicate with the embryonic stem cells and help them evolve.

«This discovery will advance our understanding of stem cell epigenetics and chromatin structures, provide potential mechanisms on maintaining the hallmark properties of ES cells, and help researchers with the rich source of information to better understand some of the unique features — such as self - renewal and pluripotency — of human embryonic stem cells,» said Ng Huck Hui, Ph.D., senior group leader at GIS and a member of the Singapore team that conducted this research.

For the first time, an experimental treatment made from human embryonic stem cells has shown evidence of helping someone, partially restoring sight to two people suffering from slowly progressing forms of blindness

Less than a year after a Wisconsin team helped discover a major alternative to human embryonic stem cells, the Madison scientists say more than 800 labs have begun using the approach, suggesting that many stem - cell researchers are starting to move beyond controversial embryonic sources for their work.

These genes normally guide embryonic heart development; however, in the adult mice hearts, they helped transform non-beating cells that form scar tissue into beating heart muscle cells.

Coinciding with CIRM's goals, three of the floors planned for renovation will accommodate the collaborative work of top stem cell researcher and UCSB professor James Thompson, who was the first to isolate human embryonic cells in 1998; the new Mellichamp and Ruth Garland Chairs of bioengineering and molecular mechanisms, respectively; and the «Deep Sequencing Core,» which will house, among other things, a device that will help develop new genetic approaches to important cell biology inquiries.