Sentences with phrase «on human stem cell research»

The debate about ethics in bio and life sciences in Germany was refueled last week: While Germany's central research funding organization, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), decided to revise its position on human stem cell research, the German government is finally reacting to heated public debates about sensitive issues by establishing a National Ethics Commission.

Another problem is that in its July 2009 Guidelines on Human Stem Cell Research, NIH spelled out specific requirements about embryo donation for newly derived lines, says Pilar Ossorio, a legal scholar who studies research ethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

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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.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

Well it seems like Ivan can relax, Michael Peroski has just solved all of our problems: Proceeding from ideology - driven inquiry entails starting from an answer: «Research on human embryonic stem cell should be forbidden because embryos are equivalent to human lives» and working....

In August of last year, President Bush approved the use of federal funds to support research on a limited number of existing human embryonic stem cell lines.

Unfortunately, at this formative stage in their lives one viewpoint is pushed to the fore on campus, and that's the opinion that euthanasia, abortion, embryonic stem cell research and a host of other practices which strip humans of their most fundamental right are good things.

AAAS CEO Alan Leshner testified before the Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee on stem cell research.

On March 9, AAAS thanked President Obama for his executive order on federal support for human embryonic stem cell research and for his memorandum on scientific integritOn March 9, AAAS thanked President Obama for his executive order on federal support for human embryonic stem cell research and for his memorandum on scientific integriton federal support for human embryonic stem cell research and for his memorandum on scientific integriton scientific integrity.

The vote will have little direct impact on human embryonic stem cell research, but the potential threat to reproductive technology and abortion rights is more immediate

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.

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».

Congressional supporters of stem cell research have re-introduced legislation to codify President Barack Obama's 2009 executive order lifting restrictions on the number of human embryonic stem cell lines available to federally funded researchers.

Advocates of biomedical research, professional societies, and patient groups had mobilized to plead for a more careful review, warning that this bill's language was so vague it might hinder research on human stem cells and new medical therapies.

With respect to the latter, it states, «no one shall be under a duty to participate in any manner of research on human stem cells to which he has a conscientious objection.»

«We thought the fight was over,» Tom Harkin (D — Iowa) and chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies said at a hearing on embryonic stem cell research on Thursday.

Lamberth interprets that to include funding of research on human embryonic stem cells more broadly, even though the Department of Health and Human Services and several presidential Administrations have not aghuman embryonic stem cells more broadly, even though the Department of Health and Human Services and several presidential Administrations have not agHuman Services and several presidential Administrations have not agreed.

► The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has put funding on hold for experiments that involve «mixing human stem cells into very early animal embryos and letting them develop» while it «reconsiders its rules» for this type of research, Gretchen Vogel reported Wednesday.

Last summer, a federal court banned taxpayer - funded research on human embryonic stem cells.

They and others say that the technique should satisfy people who object to stem cell research on the grounds that it harms potential human life.

The final guidelines on research with human embryonic stem cells issued on Monday by the National Institutes of Health set out criteria for determining which ES cell lines can be used in federally funded experiments and give NIH discretion to approve old lines that don't meet stringent modern ethical requirements.

Lamberth granted a preliminary injunction on this research after hearing a petition from a group of advocates who argued that, contrary to the U.S. government's view, research on embryonic stem cells does in fact destroy embryos — action that is prohibited by legislation known as the «Dickey - Wicker Amendment» to the bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Services.

The bill was put forth to loosen the restrictions Bush placed on human embryonic stem cell research on August 9, 2001, when he banned federal funding for work with any stem cell line created after that date.

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».

While conservatives in Congress took turns echoing George W. Bush's opposition to destroying human embryos for research, Lensch's colleague Paul Lerou stepped into a small room behind a heavy black curtain to check up on a line of nonpresidential embryonic stem cells.

«We found that the worms and human cells were almost completely protected from the Huntington's aggregates when we turned on this response,» said Andrew Dillin, the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research in UC Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Prior research with cultured tissue had shown that a mix of chemicals could change bone marrow stem cells from mice to those resembling brain cells, but when a team led by neurologist Lorraine Iacovitti of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia tried the same brew on human cells, the number altered was modest.

To Daley, the delays caused by the Bush administration's opposition to stem cell research are as much of an ethical issue as the handling of human embryos themselves, because it actively impedes progress on research that might benefit millions of Americans.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today released draft guidelines that permit federal funding for research on stem cells from human embryos set to be discarded by fertility clinics.

«Research using human fetal tissue is invaluable to scientific and medical communities worldwide that study and work on human development and disease,» said Hans Clevers, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), and a stem cell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 JStem Cell Research (ISSCR), and a stem cell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 JCell Research (ISSCR), and a stem cell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 Jstem cell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 Jcell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 July.

In 2004 Blackburn and ethicist William F. May made headlines when the Bush administration ousted them from the President's Council on Bioethics for their strong public support of human embryonic stem cell research.

The Bundestag faces a heated debate on 30 January, when the issue of whether to allow the import of human embryonic stem cells for research purposes is on the agenda.

Yet 30 % of American voters describe themselves as evangelicals, and the voices of this massive segment deserve to be heard, according to panel speaker James Childress, formerly of President Bill Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission, which informed the president on stem cell research, cloning, and human subjects research.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is scrambling to push out research grants for work on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and has given a cautious all - clear to in - house stem cell researchers after an appeals court yesterday temporarily lifted a ban on federal funding for hESC research.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted a «stay» that allows human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research to continue during an appeal of a 23 August district court preliminary injunction blocking it.

In the latest twist in an increasingly complex legal struggle, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has appealed a judge's refusal on Tuesday to remove the ban on funding for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research.

If that's the case, it is tempting to blame President George W. Bush's restrictions on research using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).

As expected, the plaintiffs in a law suit claiming that federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESC) is illegal have appealed a ruling that dealt them a defeat earlier this summer.

In March, President Barack Obama lifted Bush's ban on using federal funds for research on human embryonic stem cells derived after August 2001.

New research from scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah and collaborators at University of Utah Health (U of U Health) sheds light on the complex process that occurs in the development of human sperm stem cells.

Ruling affirms lower court decision denying challenge to federal research on human embryonic stem cells

Lamberth, who ordered a temporary ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cells research last August that an appeals court later overturned, is expected to issue a final ruling on the matter as soon as this summer.

U.S. Supreme Court rejects petition calling for ban on taxpayer - funded human embryonic stem cell research

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.

A U.S. appeals court today upheld the legality of federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs)-- the latest in a string of wins for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a 3 - year legal battle with groups that for moral reasons want to block the use of these cells.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, stem cell researcher Sean Morrison, an outspoken proponent of allowing research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) in the state, has been wooed to Texas by its $ 3 billion state cancer research program.

In a Senate hearing today on the ongoing legal tussle over human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research, lawmakers and expert witnesses lamented the disruption to this promising research.

The complete list is: the Food Research Center; the Center for Research, Teaching, and Innovation in Glass; the Center for Research and Development of Functional Materials; the Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology; the Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases; the Center for Research and Innovation in Biodiversity and Drug Discovery; the Center for Research on Toxins, Immune Response, and Cell Signaling; the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics; the Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry; the Obesity and Co-Morbidities Research Center; the Center for Cell - Based Therapy; the Center for Metropolitan Studies; the Human Genome and Stem - Cell Research Center; the Center for Computational Science and Engineering; the Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine; the Center for the Study of Violence; and the Optics and Photonics Research Center.

The U.S. National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine recommended limits on such research in 2005, among them that no human stem cells be added to primate embryos and that animal - human chimeras not be allowed tResearch Council and the Institute of Medicine recommended limits on such research in 2005, among them that no human stem cells be added to primate embryos and that animal - human chimeras not be allowed tresearch in 2005, among them that no human stem cells be added to primate embryos and that animal - human chimeras not be allowed to breed.

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.