Sentences with phrase «medical use of stem cells»

It's impossible to know every possible medical use of stem cells because scientists haven't been able to conduct extensive research with them, but researchers claim that they may be the key to treating a host of diseases and conditions, including Parkinson's disease, diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, baldness and spinal cord injuries.

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Venter reiterated this sentiment: «Using the combined power of our core areas of expertise — genomics, informatics, and stem cell therapies, we are tackling one of the greatest medical / scientific and societal challenges — aging and aging related diseases,» he said in a statement.

A research group at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center used human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) to grow human stomach tissue (paywall)-- and, notably, the part of the organ that produces digestive enzymes.

«Using the combined power of our core areas of expertise — genomics, informatics, and stem cell therapies, we are tackling one of the greatest medical / scientific and societal challenges — aging and aging related diseases,» said Dr. Venter.

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(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

An immune response, triggered by foreign neural stem cells, could actually help attack tumors, says Evan Snyder, a stem cell biologist at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in San Diego, California, and one of the early pioneers of the idea of using stem cells to attack tumors.

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center are exploring a new therapy using stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries within the first 14 to 30 days of injury.

«If we win, the entire regulatory structure for autologous cell processing, with or without culture, will be rewritten such that any physician using good practices and treating patients responsibly can use stem cells as part of his or her medical practice,» he says.

Research involving the derivation and use of embryonic stem (ES) cells is permissible only where there is strong scientific merit in, and potential medical benefit from, such research.

Dr. Zubair, medical and scientific director of the Cell Therapy Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Florida, says the experiment will be the first one Mayo Clinic has conducted in space and the first to use these human stem cells, which are found in bone marrow.

On 13 April, the Texas Medical Board voted to accept rules intended to give doctors «a reasonable and responsible degree of latitude» in using experimental stem cell therapies.

But Christopher Centeno, Regenerative Sciences» medical director, argues that as the treatment uses a patient's own stem cells, it is a medical procedure akin to in vitro fertilization, and therefore none of the FDA's business.

«The next step of progress is to use this knowledge to decipher what potential impact the genetic variants can have on the health of individuals, when we conduct health - related research,» added Professor Michael Pepper, Unit Director of the South African Medical Research Council's (SAMRC) Stem Cell Research and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria.

Mindful of public sensitivities, Daley opted to pursue experiments using what he considers the least controversial human materials to create new nonpresidential stem cell lines — poor quality embryos and oocytes that, in his words, «otherwise would have been disposed of as medical waste.»

«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 JStem Cell Research (ISSCR), and a stem cell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 JCell Research (ISSCR), and a stem cell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 Jstem cell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 Jcell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 July.

Medical researchers have been working to use stem cells, immature cells that can develop into various types of tissue, to regenerate cartilage.

In the future, medical researchers anticipate being able to use technologies derived from stem cell research to treat cancer, spinal cord injuries, and muscle damage, amongst a number of other diseases and impairments.

This experiment simulated the reprogramming of a patient's adult cells into induced pluripotent stem cells for further medical use.

Among their breakthroughs was a medical model for regenerating bladders using stem cells harvested from a donor's own bone marrow, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.

The stem cells that proliferate the most in response to damage caused by cigarette smoke repair their DNA using a process prone to errors, setting the stage for lung cancer, according to a study publishing January 26, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS Biology by Marie - Liesse Asselin - Labat and her team of the Walter and Eliza hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia.

First, promising to restore the integrity of science while seeking vast medical benefits for many, President Obama repealed the restrictions set by President Bush on the use of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research.

A full realisation of the medical potential of stem cells for human health will likely depend on a reinforcement of, and development of a whole continuum of studies ranging from those in vivo using model organisms, to cell - based therapies in the clinic.

«Using the combined power of our core areas of expertise — genomics, informatics, and stem cell therapies, we are tackling one of the greatest medical / scientific and societal challenges — aging and aging related diseases,» said Dr. Venter.

Writing in the Transplantation, the researchers from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions warned clinical use of stem cells was still a long way off.

The science presented in the film is well - explained and even though the focus of the film is on medical breakthroughs accomplished using stem cells, the scientists interviewed do not try to over-hype current stem cell applications.

While pluripotent stem cell - based therapies are an exciting option, this approach has several barriers to its application, although Iqbal Ahmad (University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA) has now proposed the use of a «non ‐ cell autonomous» reprogramming strategy as a new and improved therapeutic approach [2].

Hot on the heels of last weeks report of the successful use of gene therapy to treat the eye disease Leber's congenital amaurosis comes a report that scientists lead by Nathalie Cartier and Patrick Aubourg of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research have combined gene therapy and stem cell medicine to successfully... Continue reading Gene therapy on the brain

Before coming to Columbia she worked as a technician in Leonard Zon's lab at Harvard Medical School using zebrafish as a model for investigating the molecular mechanisms of hematopoietic stem cell differentiation and self renewal.

Robin Miskimins, director of research development at the Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota, said current research at the medical school uses only adult stem cells, which are not taken from embryos.

There is no controversial use for adult and cord blood stem cells (the types of cells The Institute uses exclusively), which have been used for decades to treat a myriad of medical conditions.

Dr. Masayo Yumoto, team leader of Regenerative Medicine Research & Planning Division, Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., has been holding a leadership role in the joint research lab at the Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Tokyo, to develop next generation cell culture method using human mesenchymal stem cells.

The goal is to use these tools to gain a deeper understanding of the disease processes in cancer, diabetes, heart disease and mental health, and ultimately to try and find safer and more effective ways of using stem cells in medical research and therapy.

But MPs including Gordon Brown and David Cameron, who both have young children with severe medical conditions, agreed on a free vote that the benefits of stem cell research using embryos were such that experiments, including the use of human admixed embryos, should be allowed.

A coalition of Britain's leading medical charities had earlier urged MPs to approve stem cell research using human - animal hybrid embryos.

It explains what stem cells are and what they do, the legalities of harvesting them and using them in research, the latest research findings from the U.S. and abroad, and the prospects for medical stem cell therapies in the short and long term.

The Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at Boston University and Boston Medical Center has engineered two new categories of lung epithelial cells in vitro using pluripotent stem cells.

Over the past two decades, we've been told that a new age of molecular medicine — using gene therapy, stem cells, and the knowledge gleaned from unlocking the human genome — would bring us medical miracles.

Okyanos therapies have been shown to be safe and efficacious in scientific and / or medical literature for the conditions we treat, and there have been zero reports of cell - related adverse effects using a patient's own adipose - derived stem and regenerative cells (ADRCs).

Dr. Beth Sabin, assistant director for education and research at the American Veterinary Medical Association said they support the use of stem cells in animals.

Stem cell therapy is an emerging medical technology popularly used in the equine industry to treat horses for a variety of athletic injuries.