Sentences with phrase «new stem cell lines»

The year's most prominent science issue, federal support of embryonic stem cell research, is so controversial that the sons of Ronald Reagan gave dueling speeches at the opposing party conventions; Michael Reagan backs President George W. Bush's policies, including the ban on funding for research on new stem cell lines, while Ron supports Senator John Kerry's promise to lift restrictions.

The finding potentially paves the way for scores of labs to generate new stem cell lines without cloned embryos, which had long been considered the only realistic way of making human stem cells in the short run.

On August 23, 2010, Judge Royce Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines allowing federal dollars to fund projects in which embryos were destroyed to derive new stem cell lines.

Others were disappointed that the White House had effectively prohibited the creation of new stem cell lines using federal funding.

For now, the new stem cell lines UC Berkeley researchers have created will help scientists understand the first molecular decisions made in the early embryo.

A new stem cell line with the mutation for fragile X syndrome may help uncover the mechanism behind the debilitating disorder

German scientists say that they need access to newer stem cell lines to compete and collaborate internationally.

Obama called upon the National Institutes of Health to set up rigorous guidelines to ensure that new stem cells lines were derived by ethical practices.

«Over a thousand lines have been derived since August 9, 2001, many with attributes beneficial to medical research,» says Daley, whose own lab has derived 18 new stem cell lines.

However, some consider human embryonic stem cell research controversial because, in some cases, the new stem cell lines are derived frozen human embryos that have been donated for research.

He was the principal investigator on the project that yielded 17 new stem cell lines, paid for completely with private funds.