Sentences with phrase «of embryonic stem cell research»

Many opponents of embryonic stem cell research hail this news as an important step away from research methods that rely on destroying embryos.

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.

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».

Interestingly, none of the opponents of embryonic stem cell research have called for research programs that might increase the odds of embryo survival.

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.

Opponents and supporters of embryonic stem cell research reached a rare moment of agreement last week.

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 fundamental impediment to our acceptance of embryonic stem cell research has to do with destruction of the human embryo.

In fact, the archbishop has voiced his criticism of embryonic stem cell research directly to Sen. McCain.

Proponents of embryonic stem cell research argue that restricting federal funding to a limited....

Former Governor Martin O'Malley (D — MD) has supported stem - cell research involving human embryos (although he is a devout member of the Catholic Church, which has opposed many forms of embryonic stem cell research).

In 2002, Daley pointed out, a group headed by Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota had reported the existence of an adult stem cell that appeared to possess the same qualities as embryonic stem cells, and conservative opponents of embryonic stem cell research quickly embraced that development as a solution to the ethical quandary.

Charo, on the law faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has written extensively on the ethics of embryonic stem cell research, served on President Barack Obama's FDA transition team, and was a member of President Bill Clinton's bioethics advisory council.

Although opponents of embryonic stem cell research latched onto transdifferentiation and MAPCs, few scientists have ever proposed adult stem cells as an alternative to embryonic ones, Morrison says.

«I'm traditionally an optimist, but I don't take this as a very good sign,» says Tim Leshan of the American Society of Cell Biology, which has been lobbying in favor of embryonic stem cell research.

Teitelbaum says the new Democrat majority in the U.S. House could bolster efforts to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research beyond the limits that President George W. Bush laid down in 2001.

In the case of embryonic stem cell research, embryos themselves were protected — not as fully as they would have been had all embryo - destructive research been forbidden, of course, but still not insignificantly.

In 2002, when George W. Bush announced the names of his appointees to the President's Council on Bioethics, there were liberal bioethicists who complained that the President had «stacked» the council with «religious conservatives» who shared his views on questions of embryonic stem cell research and «therapeutic cloning.»

Professor Austin Smith has expertise in the field of mouse developmental biology and has pioneered key advances in the field of Embryonic Stem Cell research.

In the end, George Bush tried to split the difference with a partial ban that limited the kinds of embryonic stem cell research that could be paid for with federal dollars.

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 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.

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

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

\ n \ nWhile historically there had been a ban on taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research, there has never been a ban on private funding in this country and many European countries have allowed this type of research for years, but so far none of this research has yielded a single therapeutic use.

(CNN)- The White House meant no disrespect toward Nancy Reagan when it failed to invite the former first lady and vigorous supporter of embryonic stem cell research to a bill signing ceremony on the subject, press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.

Democrat Hillary Clinton vows to end Bush's «assault on science» and has been the most vocal in her support of embryonic stem cell research.

The irony is that opponents of embryonic stem cell research were considered to be anti-science or behind the times.

Ethicist Nigel Cameron of the Illinois Institute of Technology, an opponent of embryonic stem cell research, praises the reprogramming findings.

In particular, opponents of embryonic stem cell research have repeatedly pointed to the supposed power of stem cells extracted from the adult body, which in the hands of at least one laboratory seemed to nearly match that of embryonic stem cells.

We oppose federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.»

Because NIH can't fund projects until their cell lines have been approved by the panel, the cancellation delays indefinitely federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

The Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research argues that seven in ten Americans want to eliminate restrictions on public funding of embryonic stem cell research, while the Conference of Catholic Bishops points to a poll showing six in ten oppose such funding altogether.

Opponents of embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) sought a method of producing pluripotent cells without destroying embryos.

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.

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.