Others were disappointed that the White House had effectively prohibited the creation
of new stem cell lines using federal funding.
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 fact, the latest research in epigenetics,
stem cells, and the developmental origins
of health and disease is unlocking a whole
new line of understanding
of what breastmilk contains and its role in development.
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.
Hamilton announced the
newest organ - on - chip innovation, which recreates an intestinal
lining using patient - derived
stem cells, created through a partnership between Emulate and Cedars - Sinai Board
of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute.
Wayne Hellstrom
of Tulane University in
New Orleans, Louisiana, and colleagues, extracted
stem cells from fat and placed them onto layers
of tissue taken from the
lining of pig intestine.
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).
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.
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.
British newspapers reported this weekend that Ian Wilmut, the University
of Edinburgh biologist who led the team that in 1997 cloned Dolly the sheep, is getting out
of the cloning business in light
of the
new findings, which seem to offer researchers a likely
new source
of stem cell lines for basic research that could one day lead to
new treatments and perhaps cures for spinal injuries, diabetes and debilitating disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
In a
new study published in Scientific Reports, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU)- led researchers investigated photodynamic detection
of cancer
stem cells in a glioma
cell line, a model
of a highly aggressive type
of brain cancer.
In the face
of these setbacks, many scientists have focused on
new methods
of creating
stem cell lines without destroying embryos.
Mindful
of public sensitivities, Daley opted to pursue experiments using what he considers the least controversial human materials to create
new nonpresidential
stem cell lines — poor quality embryos and oocytes that, in his words, «otherwise would have been disposed
of as medical waste.»
The finding potentially paves the way for scores
of labs to generate
new stem cell lines without cloned embryos, which had long been considered the only realistic way
of making human
stem cells in the short run.
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.
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.
With so much work needed in studying the nature
of stem cells and using them to study disease processes, therapies based on ES
cells seem very far down the
line, noted Lorenz Studer
of Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in
New York, who pointed out that so far there have only been two published papers on therapeutic cloning, both
of them in mice.
According to a
new analysis, the
cell line they created represented the first example
of parthenogenetic human embryonic
stem (ES)
cells.
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:
What Collins does not say, however, is that the
new NIH guidelines also allow for federal funds to be used in studying
new human embryonic
stem cell lines that are created (by private entities,
of course) beyond the 700 currently in existence.
The
new NIH guidelines do not permit the use
of federal funds for creating
new human embryonic
stem cell lines.
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For the first time since the linkurl: National Institutes
of Health; http://www.nih.gov/ released its
new guidelines for the derivation
of human embryonic
stem cell (hESC)
lines last summer, a
line approved under the Bush administration has been recommended for inclusion into the growing federal registry
of lines eligible for federal funding.
For more on human embryonic
stem cells, see Teisha Rowland's «All Things Stem Cell post on «Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: A New Stem Cell Line with a Long History,» The National Institute of Health's Stem Cell FAQs, or, for a visual explanation of terms used, see All Things Stem Cell's Visual Stem Cell Gloss
stem cells, see Teisha Rowland's «All Things Stem Cell post on «Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: A New Stem Cell Line with a Long History,» The National Institute of Health's Stem Cell FAQs, or, for a visual explanation of terms used, see All Things Stem Cell's Visual Stem Cell Glos
cells, see Teisha Rowland's «All Things
Stem Cell post on «Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: A New Stem Cell Line with a Long History,» The National Institute of Health's Stem Cell FAQs, or, for a visual explanation of terms used, see All Things Stem Cell's Visual Stem Cell Gloss
Stem Cell post on «Induced Pluripotent
Stem Cells: A New Stem Cell Line with a Long History,» The National Institute of Health's Stem Cell FAQs, or, for a visual explanation of terms used, see All Things Stem Cell's Visual Stem Cell Gloss
Stem Cells: A New Stem Cell Line with a Long History,» The National Institute of Health's Stem Cell FAQs, or, for a visual explanation of terms used, see All Things Stem Cell's Visual Stem Cell Glos
Cells: A
New Stem Cell Line with a Long History,» The National Institute of Health's Stem Cell FAQs, or, for a visual explanation of terms used, see All Things Stem Cell's Visual Stem Cell Gloss
Stem Cell Line with a Long History,» The National Institute
of Health's
Stem Cell FAQs, or, for a visual explanation of terms used, see All Things Stem Cell's Visual Stem Cell Gloss
Stem Cell FAQs, or, for a visual explanation
of terms used, see All Things
Stem Cell's Visual Stem Cell Gloss
Stem Cell's Visual
Stem Cell Gloss
Stem Cell Glossary.
The self - renewable capacity
of these
cells, their ability to differentiate into several tissue progenitors (neural, mesenchymal
stem cells...), and the possibility to work with mutated
cell lines define human
stem cells as a good basis for screening compounds libraries in order to discover
new potential drugs for monogenic diseases.
Obama called upon the National Institutes
of Health to set up rigorous guidelines to ensure that
new stem cells lines were derived by ethical practices.
At a ceremony in the East Room
of the White House, the president said he couldn't accept a bill that would underwrite research using
new lines of embryonic
stem cells — even though that research could find cures for diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and other illnesses.
On August 23, 2010, Judge Royce Lamberth
of the United States District Court for the District
of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction against the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) guidelines allowing federal dollars to fund projects in which embryos were destroyed to derive
new stem cell lines.
Advanced reproductive techniques such as artificial insemination, culturing
of primordial germ
cells for germ -
line transmission,
stem cell embryogenesis, and cloning offer an array
of new ways to expand and even infuse lost and
new genetic variability into at - risk wildlife populations.
A team led by Young - sup Yoon, MD, PhD developed a
new method for generating endothelial
cells, which make up the
lining of blood vessels, from human induced pluripotent
stem cells..
Scientists from the Research Department
of Cryo - Save Group NV together with the University
of Cologne (DE) have developed a
new scientifically validated method to collect adult mesenchymal
stem cells («MSCs») from the
lining of umbilical cord tissue.
Newer lines of research are focused on understanding cancer
stem (CSC)
cell biology so that therapies targeting them can be developed.