Sentences with phrase «of embryonic life»

The researchers used this live - imaging technique to study fly embryos at a key stage in their development, approximately two hours after the onset of embryonic life where the genes undergo fast and furious transcription for about one hour.

They hope to study APOBEC's importance in fighting off mutations early in the development of embryonic life, and in the development of the eggs and sperm that carry our genes to the next generation.

In debating ESCR, we have the opportunity to ask anew whether we will encourage the routine, systematic creation and destruction of embryonic life.

In the same way man's secret is to be sought not in the long - outgrown stages of his embryonic life, whether individual or racial, but in the spiritual nature of his soul.

Not exact matches

But the great and encouraging consequence of this breakthrough is that the humanity of the unborn child, even at the earliest embryonic stage of development, is now a subject of polite conversation even in the circles that so fanatically resisted acknowledging the facts of life.

The research needed to make the embryo develop to term will require trial and error, with the resulting destruction of countless embryonic human lives.

It does not necessarily follow from these affirmations that all matter or all energy have in them some bits of life or protolife, or that the primordial amoeba or the primordial virus possessed some rudiments of human consciousness or some embryonic minds.

Well it seems like Ivan can relax, Michael Peroski has just solved all of our problems: Proceeding from ideology - driven inquiry entails starting from an answer: «Research on human embryonic stem cell should be forbidden because embryos are equivalent to human lives» and working....

In 2005, before a Congressional hearing in the U.S., Prof. George Q. Daley of Harvard spoke forcefully and influentially about the necessity for embryonic stem - cell research to go ahead, and dismissed suggestions that one could work instead with «induced pluripotent stem cells» («iPS», i.e. stem cells reprogrammed from some cells of a living adult).

Even before the axial period, archaic or primal religions already had an at least embryonic sense of a sacral dimension that could interrupt life and bestow on it a wider significance than that given in ordinary existence.

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to save millions of lives, but this is being prevented by religious radicals and therefore religion is detrimental to the preservation of life.

Unfortunately, at this formative stage in their lives one viewpoint is pushed to the fore on campus, and that's the opinion that euthanasia, abortion, embryonic stem cell research and a host of other practices which strip humans of their most fundamental right are good things.

Antiabortion laws would therefore result in legal chaos, in flouting the laws, possibly in a rise in organized crime, but hardly in the saving of maternal or embryonic life.

For this reason, Evans counsels Christians to avoid the «embryonic life» narrative, which holds innocent human life to be inviolable from conception to natural death, because invoking the value of unborn life pushes people into pugilistic abortion - rights corners.

Her work involves mapping the first six days of human embryonic life.

Former Senator Rick Santorum (R — PA) is a strong backer of adult stem - cell research, and opposed to embryonic stem - cell research because he views destruction of embryos as destruction of human life.

The researchers discovered that both major living lineages of birds (the common neognaths and the rarer paleognaths) differ from the major lineages of non-bird reptiles (crocodiles, turtles, and lizards) and from mammals in having a unique, median gene expression zone of two different facial development genes early in embryonic development.

These are the first embryonic remains of sauropods, and they settle the controversy over whether the ponderous, long - necked, long - tailed dinosaurs produced live births.

The ALK gene is important during embryonic development of the nervous system but should be inactive later in life.

The seed bank would add to efforts spearheaded by the US Smithsonian Institution, in collaboration with Hawaiian and Australian bodies, which are already banking coral sperm and embryonic cells.A final, important piece of the puzzle is the corals» symbiotic algae: these are shorter - lived and faster - evolving than their hosts, and research has shown that they can pass along thermal tolerance.

The ultimate goal is to explain what role these phenomena play in the life of the embryonic stars themselves.

These interstitial macrophages are of embryonic origin: they are present from the beginning of the individual's life.

Using a nuclear protein expressed in follicle stem cells (FSCs), the researchers found that castor, which plays an important role in specifying which types of brain cells are produced during embryonic development, also helps maintain FSCs throughout the life of the animal.

Changes in cellular metabolites have been shown to regulate embryonic stem cell development at the earliest stages of life.

On the use of embryonic stem cell research to cure diseases: it should be shut down because it involves «the wholesale destruction of human life».

He has been making that point since 2004, when in testimony to the U.S. Senate, he warned embryonic stem cell opponent Sam Brownback of Kansas, «Those in a position of advice or authority who participate in the banning or enforced delays of biomedical research that could lead to the saving of lives and the amelioration of suffering are directly and morally responsible for the lives made worse or lost due to the ban, or even of a moratorium that would deny such treatments in that short window of time when it could help or save them.»

«Use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology» — which involves taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming them into embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease — «makes it possible to model dementias that affect people later in life,» says senior study author Catherine Verfaillie of KU Leuven.

Independently of the technical possibilities, we have to respect the ethical standpoint that the use of embryonic stem cells means the use of human life for other purposes.

«3 - D printed «building blocks» of life: Scientists have developed a 3 - D printing method capable of producing highly uniform «blocks» of embryonic stem cells.»

This discovery by the scientists at the CRG provides an insight into stem cell - forming molecular mechanisms, and is therefore of great interest for studies on the early stages of life, during embryonic development.

This is a relatively new paradigm in the study of evolution, which focuses on comparing the embryonic development of multiple living beings to understand how their adult forms have changed giving rise to new species.

The 2012 platform also repeats previous calls for expanding federal funding «for the stem - cell research that now offers the greatest hope for many afflictions — with adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, and cells reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells — without the destruction of embryonic human life.»

KOBE, JAPAN — Embryonic stem cells develop into all the different tissues of the body at the beginning of life; cancer cells often end life.

Vowing to veto the legislation, Bush said before the vote that the «reports give us added hope that we may one day enjoy the potential benefits of embryonic stem cells without destroying human life.»

When seeds are placed before germination either i) in a vertical position with their embryonic roots pointing down or ii) subjected to microgravity conditions, a peg develops on each side, explains Hideyuki Takahashi, a member of the Space and Adaption Biology Laboratory at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Life Sciences.

Corey Nislow's laboratory develops and uses cutting edge tools to address this central question: how can we understand the biological commonalities in all of the life sciences; from embryonic development, to the spread of infectious diseases to better ways to treat cancer.

But for well over a decade now, ethically contentious human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) has notably failed to live up to all its hype, with promises of miracle cures within «five to 10 years» remaining unfulfilled.

Yamanaka believed that research that inherently depended on the routine destruction of human embryonic life could not continue and another way to obtain pluripotent stem cells had to be found.

Platelets generated from human embryonic stem cells are functional in vitro and in the microcirculation of living mice.

Proponents of destructive human embryonic stem cell research have all too often been quick to dismiss ethical concerns over the commodification and destruction of human life, concerns, they say, that represent an obstacle to the pursuit of science.

Although additional research is required to propel the embryo into the next stage - that of a live fetus - this study offers a more comprehensive understanding of early embryonic development and could help improve fertility treatments.

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.»

With the living evidence of Dolly, and other animals cloned from adult cells, the idea that an adult somatic cell could become a reprogrammed embryonic - like cell regained a spotlight in the scientific community.

For people who believe that life begins at conception, the idea of manipulating embryonic stem cells is clearly wrong.

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.

Those in favor of human embryonic stem - cell research because they believe it could save human lives are, for the most part, also for human - bovine embryonic stem - cell research because they believe it could save human lives.

For more than a decade, Steve Stice has dedicated his research using embryonic stem cells to improving the lives of people with degenerative diseases and debilitating injuries.

During his campaign, George W. Bush said he opposed federal financing of «experimentation on embryonic stem cells that require live human embryos to be discarded or destroyed.»

Dr. Péault is internationally recognized principally for his work on the prospective identification and characterization of human hematopoietic (blood) stem cells, of which his laboratory has also deciphered the ultimate origin during embryonic life.

A team of researchers spent two weeks at the end of November collecting sperm and embryonic cells during spawning from two species of coral that live in the Great Barrier Reef, to create a freezer bank of these valuable organisms.