Sentences with phrase «of embryonic stem»

Researched current advances in utilization of embryonic stem cells.

However welcome the recent announcement that a team of scientists based at Newcastle University, has grown a section of human liver using stem cells from umbilical cords, rather than from the more controversial source of embryonic stem cells, and whatever the eventual promise or potential of harvesting organs for transplantation from genetically modified pigs, the benefits of either of these two pioneering techniques to currently dying / suffering patients, remain both elusive and distant.

Heaven forfend the U.S. be left behind in a post about religion and politics: Obama's move to lift the ban of federal funding of embryonic stem cell research didn't sit well with several U.S. states, which have now passed or are considering legislation to outlaw some forms of the work.

The administration also restricted the use of embryonic stem cells in scientific research, maintaining that they were derived from the destruction of human embryos.

This was manifest as a refusal to accept for example, the theory of evolution, the existence of global warming, much less of the role of humans in this process, the value of vaccines or of embryonic stem cell research.

The major discovery of embryonic stem cells by Martin Evans in 1981 has indeed been recognized by a Lasker and other awards.

As he devised his scheme, he relied heavily on knowledge from the field of embryonic stem (ES) cells, which naturally possess the ability to specialize into any type of adult cell.

These stem cells are called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) IPSCs are adult cells that have been genetically reprogrammed to an embryonic stem cell — like state by being forced to express genes and factors important for maintaining the defining properties of embryonic stem cells.

He said US scientists were pushing ahead and seeking regulatory approval to start safety trials of embryonic stem cells in spinal injury patients next year.

The use of embryonic stem cells as therapeutics requires firm understanding of the mechanisms that control their proliferation and differentiation.

To date, to create murine models, researchers use methods combining the Cre - Lox recombination system and the use of embryonic stem cells, but these processes are long and tedious, and it takes about 3 - 4 years to create a new mouse model.

During that time, she applied her knowledge of the processes governing normal heart development to direct the differentiation of embryonic stem cells into the cardiac lineage.

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.

Since regeneration recapitulates in broad strokes embryonic development, during which a complex multi-cellular organism develops from a handful of embryonic stem cells, the researchers began by comparing gene expression patterns between the two processes.

It is well established that Oct4 mRNA and protein disappear relatively quickly following differentiation of embryonic stem (ES) cells, by multiple protocols.

«The power of an embryonic stem cell is it's the master cell,» says Lanza.

Transformation of somatic cells with a set of embryonic transcription factors produces cells with the pluripotent properties of embryonic stem cells (ESCs).

Nevertheless, the religious and political right has decried the development of embryonic stem cell lines, and George W. Bush severed federal funding for their development.

The results have been organized in an interactive, open - access database with a number of novel features and search tools to promote studies into the biological properties of embryonic stem cells.

Prop. 71 was sold to voters mainly on the promise of embryonic stem cell therapy.

Affiliations Laboratory of Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Research Center, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo - ku, Kyoto, Japan, Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, Sakyo - ku, Kyoto, Japan

WASHINGTON — Seven years after President Bush blocked most federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, the controversial science is likely to get a fresh look from the next occupant of the White House, no matter who it is.

«People are jumping in very rapidly, much more rapidly than they did 10 years ago» after the initial discovery of embryonic stem cells, Thomson said.

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

Among its other roles, SIRT6 plays a large part in cell division and, as Mostoslavsky has found, the maturation of embryonic stem cells into their adult forms.

Senators who supported federal funding of embryonic stem - cell research replaced four of those senators.

Affiliation Laboratory of Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Research Center, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo - ku, Kyoto, Japan

La Jolla, CA — Despite their celebrated «immortality,» the capacity of embryonic stem (ES) cells for endless division has its limits.

He seeks to understand the molecular mechanisms that underlie pluripotency and the rapid proliferation of embryonic stem cells — they can become any type of cell in the body — and to identify the factors that induce reprogramming.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allowed a contract for the dissemination of embryonic stem cell lines approved for US government funding to lapse, shuttering a key stem cell bank, and doubling the price researchers pay for samples of some human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines.

The Czech Centre for Phenogenomics (CCP) Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. invites applications for the following open post-doctoral position Head of Embryonic stem cell manipulation and transgenesis The Transgenic and Archiving Module of the CCP (http://www.phenogenomics.cz/) is seeking a motivated post-doc or senior specialist to join our

Citation: Canham MA, Sharov AA, Ko MSH, Brickman JM (2010) Functional Heterogeneity of Embryonic Stem Cells Revealed through Translational Amplification of an Early Endodermal Transcript.

In a 2001 executive order, Bush limited federal funding of embryonic stem - cell research to work on lines already in existence.

In September 2010, The New York Times reported that the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that federal funding of embryonic stem cell research could continue under the new rules while the court considers Judge Lamberth's ruling [source: New York Times].

In a bid to harness the potential of embryonic stem cells, surgeons in California have implanted lab - grown retinal cells into the eyes of two patients going blind from macular degeneration.

In consequence, with the current scientific knowledge, it can only be a backup choice — in absence of embryonic stem cell model.

Cardiac differentiation of embryonic stem cells by substrate immobilization of insulin - like growth factor binding protein 4 with elastin - like polypeptides.

Our improved IVM culture conditions may be used for obtaining mature oocytes for clinical purposes and / or for derivation of embryonic stem cells following parthenogenesis or nuclear transfer.

Despite the promise of iPS cells, scientists are still struggling to understand whether their developmental potential is equivalent to that of embryonic stem cells.

At a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, the president said he couldn't accept a bill that would underwrite research using new lines of embryonic stem cells — even though that research could find cures for diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and other illnesses.

The establishment of cardiomyocyte differentiation of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) is a useful strategy for cardiovascular regenerative medicine.

It's no accident, for instance, that both early studies of embryonic stem - cell therapies — those of Geron and Advanced Cell — involved cells of the nervous system.

Obama's administration allowed federal funding of embryonic stem cell research if the following conditions applied:

He joined the Gladstone Institutes as a postdoctoral fellow in 1993 where his early research into proteins involved in cholesterol metabolism led him to the study of embryonic stem cells and differentiation.

For instance, MEF cells are usually made of fibroblasts from the mouse embryos at embryonic day 13.5 and only cells at early passages (p2 to p3) are used as feeders for derivation and culture of embryonic stem (ES) and iPS cells.

Genetic modifications in skin cells (above) induced the cells into what scientists call a pluripotent state — a condition that is essentially the same as that of embryonic stem cells.

It remains to be seen how much the issue of embryonic stem cell research will play in one of the nation's most closely watched and hard - fought Senate elections.

In Computational Biology of Embryonic Stem Cells.

STEM CELL HOUSE — A bill lifting restrictions on a certain type of embryonic stem cell research cleared a House committee Monday on a party - line vote.

It took 242 eggs to get a single culture of embryonic stem cells to grow.