Sentences with phrase «on embryonic stem cell»

«President Obama's executive order today lifting federal restrictions on embryonic stem cell research is years overdue and will now allow the full potential of scientific research and discovery to be realized.

A much - watched clinical trial on embryonic stem cell therapy for spinal cord injuries was dropped by Menlo Park biotech Geron in 2011.

Ms. Roxland concurrently served as the Special Advisor to the Commissioner of Health on Stem Cell Research Ethics, where she spearheaded creation of state - wide rules on embryonic stem cell protocols, human - animal chimera research, compensation of women who donate their oocytes to stem cell research, informed consent processes, re-contact for return of research results and incidental findings, and downstream uses of biological samples.

Stem Cell Eye Therapy Shows Promise: The study in The Lancet is the first published report on embryonic stem cell use in humans.

Since the adoption of the Bioethics law (June 23, 2011), the ban on embryonic stem cell research, and the system of derogation are maintained, with a compulsory additional revision within the next seven years.

Though both Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama and Republican rival Sen. John McCain have voted to relax federal funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, some advocates are concerned that McCain might backtrack, given the platform his party recently adopted and his choice of a running mate.

Lane plans to sign a petition, expected to begin circulating in South Dakota this week, which will give voters in the 2010 election the chance to overturn a state ban on embryonic stem cell research.

How does the government's limits on embryonic stem cell research affect you?

Several other states have stepped up to the plate in the wake of federal restrictions on embryonic stem cell research.

«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.

Here my responsibilities included drafting the report that became the basis of the German legislation on embryonic stem cell research.

In fact, when the 2007 paper came out, the commentaries in most scientific publications were quick to point out that, despite the success with adult cells, there was still a need to continue embryo - destructive research and that it would be critical to the advancement of science that research on embryonic stem cells continue.

He worries that the ruling could foster an unwelcoming climate that would eventually trickle down to limit funding for basic research on embryonic stem cells.

But he notes that long - standing uncertainties surrounding European patents of techniques based on embryonic stem cells have meant that scientists and their attorneys are used to coming up with workarounds to protect discoveries.

Although the U.S. government puts stringent restrictions on funding for research on embryonic stem cells, individual states such as California have set up institutes to perform that work and general stem cell studies.

In the United Kingdom, research on embryonic stem cells is legal in the first 2 weeks of their development.

Research on embryonic stem cells funded by the U.S. government must stop immediately for a court - ordered review, Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled today.

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.

• Roger Pedersen, a noted professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences, announced he was leaving his laboratory at the University of California at San Francisco and moving to Cambridge University because British laws do not restrict work on embryonic stem cells.

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.

Tensions have escalated since August 2001, when President George W. Bush limited publicly funded research on embryonic stem cells to already existing lines.

But he admits that the Lone Star state may be no more welcoming of research on embryonic stem cells.

But Texas has not exactly embraced research on embryonic stem cells, either.

He predicts that the small but potent research community of universities and biotech companies centered in St. Louis and Kansas City will benefit from passage of the amendment — which prevents lawmakers from barring work on embryonic stem cells while criminalizing cloning with the goal of reproduction — as will patients.

This is a fitting recognition of Sir Martin's ground - breaking research on embryonic stem cells.

Though recent progress in induced pluripotent stem - cell research may reduce reliance on embryonic stem cells, it is no moral panacea.

One form of stem cell research is conducted on embryonic stem cells — or those extracted from human embryos, which are destroyed in the process.

David Volk of the South Dakotans for Lifesaving Cures said the initiative will ask voters to allow research on embryonic stem cells, but only stem cells left over from in vitro fertilization procedures, cells that would have been discarded otherwise.

There are studies on embryonic stem cells, which can make all the tissues of your body, and people over the past couple years have been able to take a set of genes and put them in and reprogram the skin cells to think they're an embryonic cell and therefore being able to make all the tissues of your body.

Dr. ZON: No, I think it's important to continue to work on embryonic stem cells.

During his campaign, George W. Bush said he opposed federal financing of «experimentation on embryonic stem cells that require live human embryos to be discarded or destroyed.»

Gov. Tim Pawlenty opposes a bill currently before the Minnesota Legislature that would allow state funding for research on embryonic stem cells.

The first clinical trial treatment based on embryonic stem cells may soon get the go ahead.

And meanwhile, university researchers can and do work on embryonic stem cells — just so long as they don't use federal funds (which makes for some complicated partitioning of lab equipment in many a US university department).

US policy requires that Federal funds can not be used for research on embryonic stem cells.

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?

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.

Part of the ignorance is due to the media dropping the terms «embryonic» and «adult» when reporting on stem - cell

Proponents of the anything - goes position assert that the potential scientific and medical benefits of embryonic stem - cell research override all other considerations» and therefore restrictions on the funding and scope of this research are unwarranted.

In all likelihood, soon after he is sworn in, federal dollars will start flowing toward research on new embryonic stem - cell lines, bringing with it new battles to fight.

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.

(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.

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....

A very significant step away from embryonic stem - cell research was taken recently when a previously forthright advocate of such research softened his stance on other ethical alternatives.

On his website he writes: «Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent stem cells derived from inner cell mass of mammalian blastocysts.

It has brought healing, conveniences, communications, and knowledge unimaginable in earlier times, but on the other hand it has brought advanced killing technology, pollution, and embryonic stem cell research.

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.

But on the same day, he also revoked the very kind of policy that promoted the «purple» governance he claimed to want, e.g., Bush's directive that funding priority be given to funding non embryonic — and hence, societally uniting sources of pluripotent stem cells — even though they had already been discovered in the induced pluripotent stem cell breakthrough.

President Obama is poised to issue an executive order this week reversing Bush administration limits on federal financing for embryonic stem - cell research.