The NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry provides guidelines to established policy and procedures under which NIH will fund research in the area
of human stem cells.
It's an unusual kind of alliance that has evolved out
of this human stem cell work and does not exist so much in other areas of biology.
PromoCell is a premier manufacturer
of Human Stem & Blood Cells, and Primary Cells with optimized cell culture media.
The United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has issued a license that will allow researchers to create colonies
of human stem cells for the purposes of research.
Bioprinting technique creates thick 3D tissues composed
of human stem cells with embedded vasculature with potential for drug testing and regenerative medicine
Its core expertise is in efficient differentiation and encapsulation
of human stem cells for therapeutic applications in diabetes.
A team at the Harvard John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has invented a method for 3D bioprinting thick vascularized tissue constructs composed
of human stem cells, extracellular matrix, and circulatory channels lined with endothelial blood vessel cells.
Stem Cell Informatics (SCI) develops custom laboratory information systems (LIMS) and computational research tools (WGE) for high - throughput laboratory analysis
of human stem cells.
Scientists say they've created a new type
of human stem cell that they believe will help pave the away for new therapies for a range of conditions.
President Clinton's Bioethics Commission actually reached the same conclusion: «we believe that this [distinction] is a misrepresentation of the new field
of human stem cell research.»
In this image, a novel type
of human stem cell is shown in green integrating and developing into the surrounding cells of a nonviable mouse embryo.
Researchers have identified a set of molecular «flags» that are present on the surface
of human stem cells.
Inserm researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic Diseases (I - Stem — Inserm / French Muscular Dystrophy Association [AFM] / University of Évry Val d'Essonne [UEVE]-RRB-, in collaboration with CNRS and Paris - Descartes University, have developed an innovative approach to study the differentiation
of human stem cells and thus produce many types of cells in an optimal manner.
Unlike OCT4, these genes can only be studied in human embryos because they are not expressed the same way, or at all, in mouse embryos or immortalized lines
of human stem cells, says her colleague Robin Lovell - Badge, also at the Crick Institute.
For example, FASEB took no position this year on federal funding
of human stem cell research, while ASCB lobbied intensely in favor of government backing for the controversial studies.
This is an image
of human stem cell - derived beta cells that have formed islet like clusters in a mouse.
What hurdles stand between the promise
of human stem cell therapies and real treatments in the clinic?
«We also think this method could be applied towards the development of culture conditions during differentiation
of human stem cells.
«Genetic engineering
of human stem cells has not been used for disease - associated genomic deletions,» said Dr. Papapetrou.
What we are trying to do is introduce to biology techniques normally used in chemistry or physics, using inherent chemical or structural properties
of the human stem cells.
In 2007, however, scientists at International Stem Cell, a California - based biotech firm, reported the first successful creation
of human stem cell lines from unfertilized eggs.
A new type
of human stem cell, never seen in nature, should be better at making replacement organs than existing stem cells
While scientists have previously had success in 3D printing a range
of human stem cell cultures developed from bone marrow or skin cells, a team from Scotland's Heriot - Watt University claims to be the first to print the more delicate, yet more flexible, human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).
At the heart of the entire movement, like the mainspring of a clock, there reappears, in identifiable form, what we have termed the inflexion
of human stems upon themselves.
Not exact matches
Panoskaltsis - Mortari's team has been working on rebuilding lungs and other parts
of the respiratory system using
human stem cells.
For example, using 3 - D bioprinters — which can print the structure
of human tissue with biodegradable material — and
stem cells, which are used to populate the 3 - D printed structure, researchers can grow actually
human tissue.
A research group at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center used
human pluripotent
stem cells (hPSCs) to grow
human stomach tissue (paywall)-- and, notably, the part
of the organ that produces digestive enzymes.
I think many practices
of many religions
stem from
human OCD tendencies.
Doesn't the work
of some
humans on cloning and
stem cell, demonstrates that it can be done?
The fundamental impediment to our acceptance
of embryonic
stem cell research has to do with destruction
of the
human embryo.
We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other
humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions
of one
of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some
of his actions on the bench
stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.
Then they would inject
human stem cells into the pig embryo in hopes that the
human stem cells would bridge the gaps
of the missing pancreas gene and form a
human pancreas.
The view that we must «cook» the world to achieve God's purposes may
stem from a confusion
of the nature
of human nature.
Our present day bully - pulpit abusive religions
stem from the Neolithic Revolution, which, as Jared Diamond put it, was The Worst Mistake in the History
of the
Human Race.
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.
While convergence does happen in religion from the perspective
of the
human psyche being adapted through its self - deceptive capabilities (e.g., as a coping mechanism), we didn't land in the new world with the discovery
of the same kind
of scripture
stemming from a singular God.
A few weeks ago we all heard the announcement
of a major scientific breakthrough that allowed scientists to create the equivalent
of human embryonic
stem cells (called induced pluripotent
stem cells) but without using or destroying embryos.
«Motivated in large part by their religious traditions
of protecting the vulnerable and serving «the least
of these,» as Jesus instructed his followers to do in the Gospel
of Matthew,» writes Eric Marrapodi, «World Relief and other Christian agencies like the Salvation Army are stepping up efforts and working with law enforcement to
stem the flow
of human trafficking, which includes sex trafficking and labor trafficking.»
The porous self
stems from the social imaginary
of an enchanted world; its primary trait is an openness toward the world as a causal matrix filled with other
humans, spirits, demons, and cosmic forces that produce meaning.
Ernst Cassirer in his Essay on Man designates man as «animal symbolicum,» and shows that all
of the typically
human functions
stem from this fundamental ability to formulate and communicate meanings.
His statements about priest and king being bound to the land and the people ultimately point back toward a view that sees social and moral responsibility for the common welfare as
stemming from a prior relational view
of human persons.
The difficulties associated with obtaining nerve tissue at the correct stage
of development and differentiation from aborted embryos means that foetal tissue transplantation is no longer in favour, but the creation
of human embryos specifically as sources
of stem cells, and the push to use «spare» embryos from IVF treatments is gatheringmomentum.
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.
The dropping
of the atomic bomb, however, and the killing
of birdlife by DDT, documented by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, introduced a new problem: the presence
of totally unpredicted (and probably unpredictable) harmful effects on the environment and on
human life
stemming from actions taken specifically to produce certain benefits.
• A mover and shaker in the National Institutes
of Health promotion
of creating and killing
human embryos in
stem cell research is Brigid Hogan, a British researcher at Vanderbilt University.
At its base, Pannenberg's compatibility (
of divine all - determination with
human responsibility)
stems from the unique nature
of a determining activity that has its locus in the future.
When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the
human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact
of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses
of religious belief which
stem from the works
of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth
of so much
of what these critics
of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique
of the language
of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions
of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?
In the forthcoming Victories
of Reason he will go even further, contending that the most significant advances in knowledge, liberty,
human rights and material well - being — what we like to call progress —
stem not from Greece or the Enlightenment or modernity but from Christianity itself.
The elemental necessity for work and its fundamental standard
of rightness
stem from this basic
human requirement for the active exercise
of native capabilities.