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.
Not exact matches
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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Newcastle University and the NorthEast England
Stem Cell Institute are aware that the
research paper «Derivation of
Human Sperm
from Embryonic Stem Cells» by a group led by Professor Karim Nayernia has been withdrawn
from the academic journal
Stem Cells and Development.
Lamberth granted a preliminary injunction on this
research after hearing a petition
from a group of advocates who argued that, contrary to the U.S. government's view,
research on
embryonic stem cells does in fact destroy embryos — action that is prohibited by legislation known as the «Dickey - Wicker Amendment» to the bill that funds the Department of Health and
Human Services.
(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.)
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.
In February 2004 Hwang and his
research group reported the first
embryonic stem cell line derived
from a cloned
human embryo.
Previous
research in rodent disease models has shown that transplanted oligodendrocyte precursor
cells derived
from embryonic stem cells and
from human fetal brain tissue can successfully create myelin sheaths around nerve
cells, sometimes leading to dramatic improvements in symptoms.
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).
One form of
stem cell research is conducted on
embryonic stem cells — or those extracted
from human embryos, which are destroyed in the process.
At the International Society for
Stem Cell Research 2017 Annual Meeting (June 14 - 17, 2017; Boston, USA), Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc (CA, USA) will present new 9 - month efficacy and safety data from their ongoing SCiStar Phase I / IIa trial of human embryonic stem cell - derived oligodendrocyte progenitor ce
Stem Cell Research 2017 Annual Meeting (June 14 - 17, 2017; Boston, USA), Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc (CA, USA) will present new 9 - month efficacy and safety data from their ongoing SCiStar Phase I / IIa trial of human embryonic stem cell - derived oligodendrocyte progenitor ce
Cell Research 2017 Annual Meeting (June 14 - 17, 2017; Boston, USA), Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc (CA, USA) will present new 9 - month efficacy and safety data
from their ongoing SCiStar Phase I / IIa trial of
human embryonic stem cell - derived oligodendrocyte progenitor ce
stem cell - derived oligodendrocyte progenitor ce
cell - derived oligodendrocyte progenitor
cells.
That study found that since MSCRF first began awarding grants in 2007, its pattern of giving shifted over the years
from strongly favoring projects focusing on ethically contentious
human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) to projects focusing on ethically non-contentious adult
stem cells and other non-
embryonic stem cell research.
University of Wisconsin scientist, James A. Thomson, who first derived ESCs
from embryos, has said «if
human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough.»
A
research team said it has produced stratified retinal tissues
from human embryonic stem cells for the first time in...
Because the
cells were derived
from human embryos or fetal tissue, pro-life groups condemned
embryonic stem cell research as morally wrong.
Researchers
from I -
Stem participate regularly in discussions on the ethical reflection on scientific and medical perspectives of research on human embryonic stem ce
Stem participate regularly in discussions on the ethical reflection on scientific and medical perspectives of
research on
human embryonic stem ce
stem cells.
The discovery, by scientists at Kyoto University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison, seemed to promise a way out of the bitter debates over
embryonic -
stem -
cell research: rather than using
human embryos as a source of
stem cells, produce them
from adult
cells.
Thus, all
research on lines of
human embryonic stem cells as the
cells of various phenotypes derived
from these lines should aim to lexploration mechanisms or the development and validation of therapeutic applicable to serious diseases.
Pending legislation
from the Department of Health governing assisted
human reproduction and associated
research, Science Foundation Ireland is not in a position to fund
research using
human embryonic stem cells.
«It is likely we'll have a key decision
from the appeals court on whether Dickey - Wicker allows federal funding for
human embryonic stem cell research.»
Prof. Dr. Ivan Martin's
research group at the Department of Biomedicine has now been able to demonstrate that by forcing certain molecular events occurring during the
embryonic development of articular cartilage it is possible to generate stable cartilage tissue
from adult
human mesenchymal
stem cells.
Although anti-abortion groups oppose
embryonic stem cell research because they believe it destroys unborn
human life and that it threatens to expand that destruction as
stem cell research grows increasingly beneficial to
humans already born and suffering
from disease and debilitation,
embryonic stem cells now are reproduced in labs
from cells derived years ago
from originals.
The administration also restricted the use of
embryonic stem cells in scientific
research, maintaining that they were derived
from the destruction of
human embryos.