Sentences with phrase «need embryonic stem cells»

He's engaging in classic hype that the religious right uses whenever this issue comes up — claiming that we don't really need embryonic stem cells because adult stem cells are so wonderful that they can take care of everything.

«People want to rush and say, «we don't need embryonic stem cells anymore,» and over time that might be true, but right now that's premature.»

\ n \ nI am very concerned because my Grandson has Spinal Muscular Atrophy and he needs the embryonic stem cell treatment to survive, before he dies.

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Look to birth control, gay marriage, abortion, and embryonic stem cell research if you need examples.

A seriously ill person in need of embryonic stem cells to repair damaged tissue.

In fact, when the 2007 paper came out, the commentaries in most scientific publications were quick to point out that, despite the success with adult cells, there was still a need to continue embryo - destructive research and that it would be critical to the advancement of science that research on embryonic stem cells continue.

The increasing use of in - vitro - fertilisation techniques, and the emergence of new possibilities involving human cloning, mixing of human and animal genetic elements, and the use of embryonic stem cells for research, among other things, brought the need for further teaching.

To turn one cell into another you usually need to first rewind them into embryonic - like stem cells.

Others in that camp suggest that reprogrammed adult cells, (induced pluripotent, or iPSCs) can effectively replace the need for pluripotent embryonic stem cells.

In this way they act like embryonic stem cells and share their revolutionary therapeutic potential — and as such, they could eliminate the need for using and then destroying human embryos.

We should not only question the construct of the «ethics of curing,» as I will show, but we also need to look critically at reservations toward research on embryonic stem cells as they are expressed in our society.

The drawing depicted a stunningly unexpected way to create embryonic stem cells — without using or needing an unfertilized egg.

These stem cells, which are similar to highly sought - after embryonic stem cells but derived from adult cells and then reprogrammed, could be turned into the cell types needed for research, including neurons and intestinal and fat cells.

I don't think we need the same level of regulation as for human embryonic stem cells, for example, because we are not using any embryos.

We also need a more detailed comparison between iPS cells and embryonic stem cells in terms of what they do.

Not only do many of the ethical challenges posed by embryonic stem cells remain, but the relative ease and low cost of iPS techniques, combined with the accessibility of cells, accelerate the need to address futuristic - sounding possibilities such as creating gametes for reproduction.

«We studied how the Sox2 gene is turned on in mice, and found the region of the genome that is needed to turn the gene on in embryonic stem cells,» said Professor Jennifer Mitchell of U of T's Department of Cell and Systems Biology, lead invesigator of a study published in the December 15 issue of Genes & Development.

They need exactly the right kind of cell, which is what we are reporting with embryonic stem cells.

«Basically it comes [down] to how many eggs you would need to derive one embryonic stem cell line.»

Several researchers are now using cloning techniques to produce embryonic stem cells, thereby avoiding the need to collect new embryos.

The rise of these iPS cells has reduced the need for embryonic stem cells — which have long caused ethical concerns for some — and iPS cells now form the basis for most of today's stem cell research.

For example we are implementing the use of the CRISPR mouse mutagenesis technology directly in mouse embryos, which will lead to great savings and acceleration of projects in their early phase by removing the need to use embryonic stem cells.

Although we agree that greater investments are needed in the clinical development of these therapies, we disagree with the authors» suggestion that, relative to embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells provide a superior vehicle for cell - based therapies because they lack tumorigenic activity, can be prepared by methods approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and have been free of ethical controversy.

Researchers identify a network of a dozen transcription factors needed to maintain the pluripotent state of mouse embryonic stem cells.

Two months ago, several scientists in Wisconsin and Japan announced that they had successfully created a type of stem cell from ordinary human skin cells that seems to be able to function exactly like an embryonic stem cell without the need to create or destroy human embryos.

, scientists need to compare them to embryonic stem cells.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have managed to reconstruct the early stage of mammalian development using embryonic stem cells, showing that a critical mass of cells — not too few, but not too many — is needed for the cells to being self - organising into the correct structure for an embryo to form.

The embryonic stem cells need a host embryo in which to develop and this is isolated usually from a mouse with different colour fur.

They usually had to work with undifferentiated embryonic stem cells that were very hard to come by or tissue - specific adult stem cells that lacked needed flexibility.

This two - volume reference integrates this exciting area of biology, combining the prerequisites for a general understanding of adult and embryonic stem cells, the tools, methods, and experimental protocols needed to study and characterize stem cells and progenitor populations, as well as a presentation by the world's experts of what is currently known about each specific organ system.

For Schauer, the two cell alternatives back her argument that embryonic stem cells aren't needed for meaningful research.

The Institute's website notes the need for its work, pointing out that there are over 300 nonprofit research foundations and academic centers expressly devoted to research using embryonic stem cells.

Lane believes that research in embryonic stem cells will likely be short - lived, as scientists learn what they need to know about the function of cells.

But, by then, human embryonic stem cells had lost some of their controversial edge, because scientists really had developed an alternative source of cells that reduced the need for material from human embryos.

Opponents of embryonic stem cell research also are grabbing onto recent scientific advances that they say obviate the need for destroying embryos.

Embryonic stem cells are maintained in a ready - to - go state, «poised» for action to become whatever cell type is needed.

Patient - specific stem cells may offer an alternative to embryonic stem cells that will skirt the need for immunosuppressive therapy as well as the social and political ramifications of embryonic stem cell research, but their utility extends far beyond such groundbreaking advances and will assist future clinical practice and patient care.

Embryonic stem cells can be derived from in vitro fertilized (IVF) embryos that are developed in excess of those needed for the procedure used to enable infertile couples to have children.