Opponents
of embryonic stem cell research also are grabbing onto recent scientific advances that they say obviate the need for destroying embryos.
Not exact matches
If we are against the use
of stem cell research on the basis
of embryonic destruction, shouldn't we
also be against in - vitro fertilization clinics because there are always excess embryos that get discarded?
The centre will adopt a multidisciplinary approach toward
stem cell research, and it will employ scientists «who will work on a diverse array
of embryonic and adult
stem cells,» adds Rudnicki, who is
also the centre's director.
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.
We should not only question the construct
of the «ethics
of curing,» as I will show, but we
also need to look critically at reservations toward
research on
embryonic stem cells as they are expressed in our society.
Scientists from the Spanish National Cancer
Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered that NANOG, an essential gene for
embryonic stem cells,
also regulates
cell division in stratified epithelia — those that form part
of the epidermis
of the skin or cover the esophagus or the vagina — in adult organisms.
«We are in an era where the primary issues are not federal funding for human
embryonic stem cell research,» wrote CAMR President Amy Comstock Rick, who is
also CEO
of the Parkinson's Action Network, in an e-mail to the more than 100 patient advocacy, scientific, and other groups that belong to CAMR.
The 50 - year - old Faustman says her work
also undermines an important rationale for a favored subject
of diabetes
research,
embryonic 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.
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.»
If dealing with the public relations nightmare over its on - off - on funding
of Planned Parenthood wasn't enough, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure cancer charity last week
also got entangled, somewhat bizarrely, in the debate over human
embryonic stem (ES)
cell research.
This approach to derive patient - specific
Embryonic Stem cell - like
cells (iPS
cells) is going to open up
research into the genetic causes
of disease and the search for therapies not only for such diseases, but
also for repairing tissues damaged in other ways.
Zernicka - Goetz's
research could
also lead to important advancements in the study
of embryonic stem cell therapy applications.
Shaheen, whose granddaughter was recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and Fox have joined a majority
of medical researchers around the country who believe that
embryonic stem cell research offers more potential than other
stem cell lines, which have
also attracted
research attention.
Last week, a ruling by federal Judge Royce C. Lamberth left many human
embryonic stem cell (hESC) researchers not only scrambling for funding and concerned about the future
of their own
research, but
also concerned for the future
of the whole field in this country.
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.
And so it's really great that
embryonic stem cell research was there for us, and
also that most
of these leads that we're talking about today came from
embryonic stem cell research.
The administration
also restricted the use
of embryonic stem cells in scientific
research, maintaining that they were derived from the destruction
of human embryos.