Sentences with phrase «on stem cell lines»

That bill, based on one from Rep. Diana DeGette, D - Colo., would have allowed federal dollars to flow toward research on stem cell lines using embryos left over from in vitro fertilization, slated for disposal and donated by the parents.
After that year, the researchers may continue to work on any stem cell lines (the isolated populations of stem cells) that they have established.
For while the new NIH guidelines explicitly permit funding for research on stem cell lines in which human embryos have already been destroyed, they also explicitly forbid funding for research on stem cell lines that have been produced by SCNT (see section V. part B).
The group urged the creation of two central databases: One on stem cell lines in use worldwide and one on intellectual property rights so scientists can readily access information.

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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.
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.
He was referring to Intelligent Nutrients, his line of health and beauty products that meets strict NOP organic standards and focuses on sourcing ingredients in a way that supports the earth, while pushing the envelope with stem - cell science to produce maximum - efficacy products.
He ruled that work on existing embryonic stem cell lines derived outside federally funded labs did not violate a ban on the destruction of embryos.
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.
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.
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.
In yesterday's order, Lamberth wrote that they did not: «The prior [Bush Administration] guidelines, of course, allowed research only on existing stem cell lines, foreclosing additional destruction of embryos.»
Studying mice with injuries to the lining of the stomach, the researchers blocked the animals» ability to call on stem cells for help in the stomach.
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.
But just how close adult and reprogrammed stem cells can come to matching the capabilities of embryonic stem cells has become a contentious question in the debate over whether the federal government should continue funding research on embryonic lines.
To see whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.
IGFBP3 binds to a receptor protein on colonic stem cells causing their death and, in turn, damaging the intestinal lining
In its comment on the draft policy, the the International Society for Stem Cell Research asks NIH to define some «core principles» covering what is ethically acceptable rather than set explicit rules that might exclude «lines that have been in routine use for the past ten years.»
The researchers have isolated the sesquiterpene lactone damsin from the plant and studied its effect on cancer stem cells in three different breast cancer cell lines.
Part of the trouble is the ingredients: Subtle variations in tissue - culture chemicals and Matrigel, or in different stem cell lines and how they are grown first in 2 - D culture, can have a big impact on how the organoids turn out, Novitch says.
On the other hand, the problem is, you know, with embryonic stem cells, they haven't been able to get stem cell lines from livestock animals that can proliferate in that way, without just sort of veering up in their own direction and turning into, instead of muscle, turning into brain tissue or bone tissue or something else.
The team used five types of antibiotics — including one used to treat acne (doxycycline)-- on cell lines of eight different types of tumour and found that four of them eradicated the cancer stem cells in every test.
UPDATE: NIH posted a notice today saying that ongoing research on previously approved stem cell lines can continue.
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.
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.
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.
If the president's philosophy — to restrict federal funding to research on cell lines created prior to August 9, 2001 — lacks a principled moral basis that amplifies the view that the governmental obstacles imposed on stem cell research, and the delays they have caused, themselves represent an ethical problem.
In the face of these setbacks, many scientists have focused on new methods of creating stem cell lines without destroying embryos.
Alternative cell lines, such as induced pluripotent stem cells generated from patient skin cells, offer a more accurate window on human biology, he says.
In a statement put on the Web this morning, NIH reported that all 64 lines «show characteristics of stem cell morphology» and have undergone several population doublings, and most of them have demonstrated all the protein markers «known to be associated with human embryonic stem cells
Tensions have escalated since August 2001, when President George W. Bush limited publicly funded research on embryonic stem cells to already existing lines.
Hajishengallis, Chavakis and their colleagues identified the protein on hematopoetic stem cells with which Del - 1 interacts, the ß3 integrin, perhaps pointing to a target for therapeutic interventions down the line.
They then went on to demonstrate that the stem cell lines originated from the skin cell donors.
On 9 August, President George W. Bush announced that federal funding of stem cell research is permitted, but only for that on cell lines already established from embryos discarded by fertility clinics by the time of his statemenOn 9 August, President George W. Bush announced that federal funding of stem cell research is permitted, but only for that on cell lines already established from embryos discarded by fertility clinics by the time of his statemenon cell lines already established from embryos discarded by fertility clinics by the time of his statement.
The long - awaited registry of human embryonic stem cell lines approved by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) went up on the Web this week.
Paper on creation of stem cell line from human blastocyst contains fabricated data, university committee concludes
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.
«I am excited to embark on this line of research and look forward to the day when patient - specific stem cells are utilized to treat people suffering from debilitating injuries and health conditions.»
His executive order allowed funding on embryonic stem - cell lines derived from embryos that had already been destroyed, but excluded funding of research using stem cells from embryos destroyed after August 9, 2001 (the date of his announced policy).
June 21, 2007: Bush vetoes another DeGette - sponsored bill that would allow research on all stem - cell lines using cells created for in - vitro fertilization and scheduled to be discarded.
To do so, they started with a human embryonic stem cell line, which they chemically nudged to become cells that form what's known as the primitive streak on the hollow ball of cells of the early embryo.
NeuroStemcell is focused on the identification and systematic comparison of progenitor cell lines with the most favourable characteristics for mesDA and striatal GABAergic neuronal differentiation, generated either directly from human embryonic stem (ES) cells, from Neural Stem (NS) cells derived from ES cells or fetal brain, from induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells or from in vitro short - term expanded neural progenitors from ventral midbrain grown as neurospheres (VMN, Ventral Midbrain Neurospheres) 4, and perform rigorous and systematic testing of the most prominent candidate cells in appropriate animals modstem (ES) cells, from Neural Stem (NS) cells derived from ES cells or fetal brain, from induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells or from in vitro short - term expanded neural progenitors from ventral midbrain grown as neurospheres (VMN, Ventral Midbrain Neurospheres) 4, and perform rigorous and systematic testing of the most prominent candidate cells in appropriate animals modStem (NS) cells derived from ES cells or fetal brain, from induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells or from in vitro short - term expanded neural progenitors from ventral midbrain grown as neurospheres (VMN, Ventral Midbrain Neurospheres) 4, and perform rigorous and systematic testing of the most prominent candidate cells in appropriate animals modStem (iPS) cells or from in vitro short - term expanded neural progenitors from ventral midbrain grown as neurospheres (VMN, Ventral Midbrain Neurospheres) 4, and perform rigorous and systematic testing of the most prominent candidate cells in appropriate animals models.
To develop protocols for production of transplantable mesDA and striatal GABAergic progenitors from human ES and NS cell lines, building on recent developments in stem cell biology;
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My post-doctoral work on the identification of genes required for normal germ line development and fertility led to the discovery that the germ line is exquisitely sensitive to mutations in components of the mitotic spindle that have the potential to lead to aneuploidy — this sensitivity may also extend to embryonic and adult stem cells.
All the hES and human induced pluripotent stem cell lines were confirmed to be genetically stable and pluripotent in in vivo and in vitro assays after extensive culturing on the new substrata.
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 Glossstem 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 Gloscells, 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 GlossStem 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 GlossStem 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 GlosCells: 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 GlossStem 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 GlossStem Cell FAQs, or, for a visual explanation of terms used, see All Things Stem Cell's Visual Stem Cell GlossStem Cell's Visual Stem Cell GlossStem Cell Glossary.
The institutional acronym is followed by information on the cell type, indicated by either an i for induced or an e for embryonic pluripotent stem cell lines, respectively.
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