However, due to the limited
number of stem cells available, only 10 % of patients referred for cord blood transplantation are eligible, which highlights the crucial contribution of StemCell2MAX for healthcare improvement.
Not exact matches
Congressional supporters
of stem cell research have re-introduced legislation to codify President Barack Obama's 2009 executive order lifting restrictions on the
number of human embryonic
stem cell lines
available to federally funded researchers.
Collins and others argue not just for a permanent removal
of the injunction to resume research with confidence, but also for an extension
of the
number of embryonic
stem cell lines
available to federally funded researchers.
He has also been an inveterate foe
of abortion, a position that informed his repeated votes against expanding the
number of human embryonic
stem cell lines
available to NIH - funded researchers during the George W. Bush administration.
Under the Obama administration, the
number of embryonic
stem cell lines
available for federally funded research had more than tripled, but no money was going toward the creation
of any
cell lines (a process that destroys the embryo).