Sentences with phrase «of embryonic stem cell line»

In addition, Dr. Reinholdt's laboratory developed a novel protocol for derivation of embryonic stem cell line from a variety of strains that were previously deemed recalcitrant after years of failed attempts by the scientific community.

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) line... from $ 500 per vial of frozen cells to $ 1,000.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Not surprisingly, President Obama received high marks from the journal, largely because his response to the question of whether he would lift Bush's ban on the federal funding of new embryonic stem - cell lines is in line with the view of most in the scientific community.

In August of last year, President Bush approved the use of federal funds to support research on a limited number of existing human embryonic stem cell lines.

Advocates of embryonic stem cell research were thought to be in a long line of pioneers fighting the restraints of religious doctrine to push forward with scientific research.

He ruled that work on existing embryonic stem cell lines derived outside federally funded labs did not violate a ban on the destruction of embryos.

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.

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.

CMRB has two parts: the Cell Line Bank of Barcelona, which generates and maintains embryonic stem cell lines, and the CMRB research centre, which carries out basic and applied research to design future strategies for regenerative medicCell Line Bank of Barcelona, which generates and maintains embryonic stem cell lines, and the CMRB research centre, which carries out basic and applied research to design future strategies for regenerative mediccell lines, and the CMRB research centre, which carries out basic and applied research to design future strategies for regenerative medicine.

In addition, where cells derived from embryonic stem cells are great at proliferating — a potentially critical feature if one wants to grow sufficient numbers of cells for clinical use — ones from the iPS lines were much feebler.

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.

But just how close adult and reprogrammed stem cells can come to matching the capabilities of embryonic stem cells has become a contentious question in the debate over whether the federal government should continue funding research on embryonic lines.

«We can work with any embryonic stem cell line from any source and are not restricted to working with the very small number of federally approved lines as is the case for researchers in the United States,» says Minger.

In May 2005, Hwang and his colleagues reported that it had produced 11 new human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines that carried the genetic signature of patients with diabetes, spinal cord injury, or a genetic blood disorder (Science, 20 May, p. 1096).

To see whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.

The laboratory process, described in the journal Scientific Reports, entails genetically modifying a line of human embryonic stem cells to become fluorescent upon their differentiation to retinal ganglion cells, and then using that cell line for development of new differentiation methods and characterization of the resulting cells.

At the University of Washington, Hannele Ruohola - Baker, professor of biochemistry and associate director of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Julie Mathieu, acting instructor and Henrik Sperber, graduate student, withdraw embryonic stem cell lines from liquid nitrogen storStem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Julie Mathieu, acting instructor and Henrik Sperber, graduate student, withdraw embryonic stem cell lines from liquid nitrogen storCell and Regenerative Medicine, Julie Mathieu, acting instructor and Henrik Sperber, graduate student, withdraw embryonic stem cell lines from liquid nitrogen storstem cell lines from liquid nitrogen storcell lines from liquid nitrogen storage.

On the other hand, the problem is, you know, with embryonic stem cells, they haven't been able to get stem cell lines from livestock animals that can proliferate in that way, without just sort of veering up in their own direction and turning into, instead of muscle, turning into brain tissue or bone tissue or something else.

Stem cell advocates have been expressing serious worry that ethical requirements spelled out in the draft guidelines — in particular, informed consent procedures for embryo donors — will rule out the use of many existing human embryonic stem cell lines, including the 21 lines approved under the Bush AdministratStem cell advocates have been expressing serious worry that ethical requirements spelled out in the draft guidelines — in particular, informed consent procedures for embryo donors — will rule out the use of many existing human embryonic stem cell lines, including the 21 lines approved under the Bush Administratstem cell lines, including the 21 lines approved under the Bush Administration.

The final guidelines on research with human embryonic stem cells issued on Monday by the National Institutes of Health set out criteria for determining which ES cell lines can be used in federally funded experiments and give NIH discretion to approve old lines that don't meet stringent modern ethical requirements.

In the past 3 years, the state has lured two key members of the Victorian team that produced the world's second human embryonic stem cell line.

«The beautiful thing,» Lanza says, «is that if you have an embryonic stem cell line that is O negative, because it's immortal you could create an unlimited amount of universal blood that would match virtually everybody, so you wouldn't have to worry about matching blood types.»

In 2008 a group of medical researchers led by Robert Lanza at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts, reported another leap: They discovered a way to avoid destroying the embryo by deriving an entire stem cell line from a single embryonic cCell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts, reported another leap: They discovered a way to avoid destroying the embryo by deriving an entire stem cell line from a single embryonic ccell line from a single embryonic cellcell.

While conservatives in Congress took turns echoing George W. Bush's opposition to destroying human embryos for research, Lensch's colleague Paul Lerou stepped into a small room behind a heavy black curtain to check up on a line of nonpresidential embryonic stem cells.

Last January, the House of Representatives voted, 253 to 174, to pass a bill, H.R. 3, that would allow researchers to use leftover embryos from in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics to create new lines of embryonic stem cells, and in April, the Senate passed its version of the bill.

They used the gene editing technology CRISPR to engineer a series of human embryonic stem cell lines, which were identical apart from the number of DNA repeats that occurred at the ends of their HTT genes.

In a statement put on the Web this morning, NIH reported that all 64 lines «show characteristics of stem cell morphology» and have undergone several population doublings, and most of them have demonstrated all the protein markers «known to be associated with human embryonic stem cells.»

One is a relatively unknown company, CyThera, set up less than 2 years ago in San Diego, that claims to have nine embryonic stem cell lines and is currently trying to develop pancreatic islet cells for treatment of diabetes.

In September the British Parliament funded an embryonic - stem - cell bank that may eventually store thousands of cell lines, which will help make Britain a leader in embryonic - stem - cell research.

If there was one embryonic stem cell, and it differentiated into five distinct specialized cells, and then these specialized cells were reprogrammed into five distinct induced stem cell sets — then at least one of these lines would be similar to an embryonic cell with 95 % confidence.

In August of last year, President George W. Bush announced that scientists who received public research money could use only the human embryonic stem - cell lines that already exist — a decision that dismayed many researchers.

Salk scientists and colleagues have proposed new molecular criteria for judging just how close any line of laboratory - generated stem cells comes to mimicking embryonic cells seen in the very earliest stages of human development, known as naïve stem cells.

But last April he also voted for the HOPEAct, a Bush - supported «compromise» bill that would open up federal funding for research that does not involve the creation, destruction, or injury of embryos; seeing as there are not yet any embryonic stem cells lines that meet this condition (ACT hasn't yet proven that their technique poses no «risk of injury»), the HOPE funding would only be available for non-embryonic stemcells.

This Korean researcher racked up a series of important advances in embryonic stem cell technology, including the first lines of cells from patients

The only stem cell research he would permit, Bush said, was research using existing embryonic lines as well as so - called adult stem cells, which occur in anyone of any age.

In other cases, the goal was to establish a line of embryonic stem cells.

The long - awaited registry of human embryonic stem cell lines approved by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) went up on the Web this week.

Attempting to find middle ground in the contentious debate over human embryonic stem cells, President George W. Bush announced 9 August that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be allowed to fund work with embryonic stem (ES) cell lines — but only those lines that have already been derived.

A bill that would allow federal funding for derivation of new lines of human embryonic stem (ES) cells passed the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday 238 to 194 after more than four hours of debate.

According to a new analysis, the cell line they created represented the first example of parthenogenetic human embryonic stem (ES) cells.

During the next five years, KOMP2 will transform the knockout mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells into adult mice for 2,500 lines of well - characterized knockout mice strains, and IMPC will create about 2,500 additional knockout mouse strains.

Twenty - seven human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines are ethically derived and should be approved for use in research funded by the US linkurl: National Institutes of Health; http://www.nih.gov/ (NIH), a committee advising the NIH director linkurl: recommended today (December 4).

His executive order allowed funding on embryonic stem - cell lines derived from embryos that had already been destroyed, but excluded funding of research using stem cells from embryos destroyed after August 9, 2001 (the date of his announced policy).

The goal of this protocol (written in French) is to describe the steps and quality controls to prepare new stable murine embryonic stem cells lines: ① either from wild type mouse embryos to introduce a mutation by genetic targeting or homologous recombination to get a genetically modified mouse line ② or from genetically modified mouse embryos with two aims:

Establishment of a human embryonic germ cell line and comparison with mouse and human embryonic stem cells.

KOMP2 and IMPC researchers will begin by creating lines of knockout mice from embryonic stem cells produced by KOMP.