Sentences with phrase «human fetal tissue research»

And it cites numerous examples to conclude that «human fetal tissue research makes a vanishingly small contribution to clinical and research efforts.»

How ardently he might try to influence administration policy regarding human fetal tissue research, which congressional Republicans have targeted for elimination since 2015, is far from clear.

«Human fetal tissue research has gone on for decades.

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Human fetal tissue is in high demand from American biomedical research labs — whether for - profit, academic, or government.

Now, many research advocates are wondering how Price's mix of views might play out in the new administration's approach to a wide range of issues, including funding, research involving human embryonic stem cells and fetal tissue, and the appointment of a new NIH director.

«In over 100 years of unrestricted clinical research, human fetal tissue has failed to provide a single medical treatment...»

«Research using human fetal tissue is invaluable to scientific and medical communities worldwide that study and work on human development and disease,» said Hans Clevers, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), and a stem cell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 July.

THE battle in the US over abortion has claimed a casualty: research on transplantation of fetal tissue into humans.

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.

Currently, federal law allows the NIH to fund research on aborted fetal tissue but prohibits grants for any investigation that harms a human embryo.

From early fetal tissue research to the first successful human treatments, this timeline documents the progress in stem cell science,...

Biochemist Thomas Baldwin, president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, in a letter to the House and Senate appropriations committees, wrote that «research using fetal tissue and embryonic stem cells advances scientific knowledge, improves human health, and saves lives.»

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Because the cells were derived from human embryos or fetal tissue, pro-life groups condemned embryonic stem cell research as morally wrong.

This month, the House of Representatives approved a spending bill that bans the National Institutes of Health from funding any research that uses human fetal tissue obtained from abortions.

Prof Muzlifah Haniffa, from Newcastle University, said: «This research is possible due to the Human Developmental Biology Resource, which provides human embryonic and fetal tissues to ethically approved scientific studies such as the Human Developmental Biology Resource, which provides human embryonic and fetal tissues to ethically approved scientific studies such as the human embryonic and fetal tissues to ethically approved scientific studies such as the HDCA.

Today academic institutions and teaching hospitals across the country receive federal or private grants to support groundbreaking research using human fetal tissue on a wide range of conditions including diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, spinal cord injuries, hemophilia, leukemia, sickle cell anemia, cortical blindness, fetal aneuploidy, ALS, and others.