Sentences with phrase «of embryonic stem cells for»

In the past few weeks, the debate about genetic research in Germany has focused on the issue of the use of embryonic stem cells for research.

Thus, they consider the use of embryonic stem cells for research purposes as unconstitutional.

Starting in 2007, in the same French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) lab where he did his Ph.D., Catelain worked to harness the potential of embryonic stem cells for treating cardiac diseases.

The increasing use of in - vitro - fertilisation techniques, and the emergence of new possibilities involving human cloning, mixing of human and animal genetic elements, and the use of embryonic stem cells for research, among other things, brought the need for further teaching.

Attempts have been made to bridge this divide by proposing alternative sources of embryonic stem cells for research and therapeutic purposes.

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What do you think of President Obama's decision to increase federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research?

The truth, of course, is that there are no human embryonic stem - cell therapies even in clinical trial, let alone ready for therapy, and there have been no major treatment....

Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together with pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem - cell research, and attempts at human cloning.

research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in the public imagination.

However, embryonic stem cells remain the «gold standard,» and studies of all types of stem cells should continue in parallel for the foreseeable future.»

Let us be thankful that a tool for discrediting the pro-life movement (shaming us for opposing magical cures promised by embryonic stem - cell research) has itself been taken out of their hands.

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.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Sullivan went on to suggest that Chaput is using a double standard in the 2008 election by criticizing Catholic supporters of Barack Obama, while turning a blind eye to John McCain's support for embryonic stem cell research.

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).

Yet just such an unlikely resolution may be in hand for one of the most acrimonious conflicts of recent times: the debate over human embryonic stem cells....

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

He decreed that the case brought by researchers Drs James Sherley and Theresa Deisher, along with a number of Christian groups including the Christian Medical Association, should be heard; and ordered an injunction temporarily blocking federal funding allocated for human - embryonic - stem - cell research.

(In many ways it is worse than when John Edwards said in 2004 that if people voted for John Kerry, people like Christopher Reeve would get out of their wheelchairs and walk from embryonic stem cell therapies.)

Another possible advantage of using the Dolly method to produce embryonic stem cells is that it takes just days, compared with weeks for iPS cells.

Not that a principled moral objection shouldn't be enough, but, for those sitting on the fence, the additional discoveries of alternative sources of embryonic - type stem cells should be decisive.

One of the best talks of this conference was given by Dr. Renee Reijo Pera, Professor and Director of the Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research at Stanford University.

The researchers detected this SMN long noncoding RNA, or lnc - RNA (pronounced «link RNA») for short, in human embryonic kidney cells, brain cell samples and neurons derived from the stem cells of healthy people and those with spinal muscular atrophy type I and II.

A type of «virgin birth» stem cell could be as powerful as embryonic stem cells but without the same ethical objections, and are being tested for Parkinson ’s

«We've shown that SIF - seq can be used to identify enhancers active in cardiomyocytes, neural progenitor cells, and embryonic stem cells, and we think that it has the potential to be expanded for use in a much wider variety of cell types,» Dickel says.

Faced with an often - hostile Congress, Obama enacted many of his signature policies by executive order — from reversing restrictions on research with human embryonic stem cells to helping communities prepare for climate change.

For example, a consortium of research groups called the London Project to Cure Blindness aims to test RPE transplants from embryonic stem cells in patients with macular degeneration this year.

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 study results were found using mouse embryonic stem cells, which are good cell models for the study of processes seen in human stem cells.

For the first time, specialised cells have been reprogrammed into the equivalent of embryonic stem cells without using genes that might trigger cancer.

In granting an injunction to two scientists who oppose widening US government funding for research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), Judge Royce Lamberth wrote of «simply preserving the status quo».

Oliver Brüstle, director of the Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology at the University of Bonn, Germany, who had a patent on a method for generating neurons from human embryonic stem cells rejected by the court, called the ruling «the worst possible outcome», and «a disaster for Europe».

«I think this is the best option we have ever had,» says Renee Reijo Pera, director of Stanford University's Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education in California, who wasn't involved in the study.

Peter Coffey, a stem - cell biologist at the Institute of Ophthalmology in London, is developing an embryonic - stem - cell treatment for macular degeneration with the global drug company Pfizer.

Base oxidation regulates gene activity In cooperation with colleagues at LMU, as well as researchers based in Berlin, Basel and Utrecht, Carell and his group have now shown, for the first time, that a standard base other than cytosine is also modified in embryonic stem cells of mice.

For example, animal studies have shown that neurons derived in the lab from human embryonic stem cells improve Parkinson's symptoms; however, any residual stem cells associated with those neurons could form masses of unwanted cells.

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.

«Perhaps there are some mammary gland stem cells that can be coaxed to have a slightly broader potential than normal, but I very much doubt that embryonic - like cells normally exist in the breast,» says Robin Lovell - Badge of the National Institute for Medical Research in London.

They then argue that «By creating a financial incentive for embryonic stem cell research — an incentive that by NIH's own admission involves investments of «hundreds of millions of dollars» — and by specifying the precise means by which embryos must be destroyed in order to qualify for federal funding, the NIH necessarily and knowingly subjects embryos to a substantial risk of injury or death.»

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.

Yoshiki Sasai at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, and colleagues encouraged embryonic stem cells to develop into retinal cells, and then grew them alongside a protein matrix to promote the formation of tissue.

They showed that ZIKV infection of cortical progenitors (stem cells for cortical neurons) controlling neurogenesis triggers a stress in the endoplasmic reticulum (where some of the cellular proteins and lipids are synthetized) in the embryonic brain, inducing signals in response to incorrect protein con - formation (referred to as «unfolded protein response»).

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.

«Human embryonic stem cells remain the gold standard for pluripotency,» Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said at the hearing.

The patch is made of eye cells made from human embryonic stem cells, and it has been designed for treating the «dry» form of macular degeneration, which accounts for 90 per cent of all cases, and affects 1.7 million people in the US.

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).

«It's an exciting development, and we await the outcome over the next year to see how well these cells integrate, and if there are any potential adverse reactions,» says Mike Cheetham of the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London, one site where research is under way into a human embryonic stem - cell treatment for AMD.

However, Daley says he was asked not to make embryonic stem cells the focus of his talk, but he planned to discuss them for historical context.

But a number of the invited speakers, including Alan Trounson, president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in San Francisco, and keynote speaker George Daley, a stem - cell scientist at Children's Hospital Boston in Massachusetts, are involved in research using human embryonic stem cells, which the Catholic Church considers unethical.

Recently, however, I was alarmed to hear that my fellow Delawareans voted to oust Representative Mike Castle, a solid moderate who pushed for embryonic stem cell research and was handily elected as the Republican representative of a largely Democratic state for nine consecutive terms, in favor of Christine O'Donnell, who, as far as I can tell, is a houseplant.