Sentences with phrase «other stem cell lines»

Shaheen, whose granddaughter was recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and Fox have joined a majority of medical researchers around the country who believe that embryonic stem cell research offers more potential than other stem cell lines, which have also attracted research attention.

We are the home of the UK Stem Cell Bank which provides a world - leading resource of ethically - sourced, quality - controlled human embryonic and other stem cell lines for research applications.

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Collins and others argue not just for a permanent removal of the injunction to resume research with confidence, but also for an extension of the number of embryonic stem cell lines available to federally funded researchers.

«We are developing a fetal brain stem cell line to identify other fetal brain sugars that may be targets of Zika,» he adds.

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.

However, these poisons can also do significant harm to other dividing cells such as those found in the stomach lining and in hair and nail follicles, as well as the blood and immune stem cells in the bone marrow.

In one study, geneticist Joseph Ecker at the Salk Institute in California took various stem cell lines reprogrammed from skin, fat, and other tissues and examined each line's genome for dna methylation, chemical marks that alter how genes are expressed.

To make sure that the differences were really due to the DISC1 variation and not to other genetic differences, graduate student Ha Nam Nguyen spent two years making targeted genetic changes to three of the stem cell lines.

When Sukumar and the others depleted the HOXA5 protein in other breast cell lines in the lab, the cells became more immature, or «stem like,» as well as more mobile.

The team's findings may also be relevant to inflammatory disorders that affect other parts of the body, such as the linings of the gut and bowel, which, like the skin, are replenished by epithelial stem cells.

In other cases, the goal was to establish a line of embryonic stem cells.

Pediatric stem cell transplant and cancer patients often are discharged from the hospital with an external central venous line for medications that parents or other caregivers must clean and flush daily to avoid potentially life - threatening infections.

Many pediatric stem cell transplant and oncology outpatients have central lines to deliver chemotherapy and other medications.

He added: «Truly naive human ES cell lines would not only help answer fundamental questions about how we are made, and be useful for drug screening and tissue therapy, but they would also provide a benchmark against which other types of stem cells could be measured in terms of their effectiveness in stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine.»

Whereas the derivation of stem cell lines from human embryos is subject to specific regulation by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), UK law does not distinguish between fetal tissue and other tissue from living patients.

The use of higher resolution techniques, such as array CGH and, soon, whole genome sequencing, will enhance the ability of researchers to examine stem cell lines to determine which are best — least likely to result in diseases and other problems — to use in creating therapies for use in humans.

The majority of gene - targeting experiments in mice are performed in 129Sv - derived embryonic stem (ES) cell lines, which are generally considered to be more reliable at colonizing the germ line than ES cells derived from other strains.

The ALD stem cell line wouldn't have happened without one other key player: the ALD Foundation, an awareness, support and fundraising organization led by a man who recently lost his stepson to the disease.

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.

Finally, he opened the door to funding research involving stem cell lines created by producing human embryos by somatic cell nuclear transfer or other means specifically for research in which they are killed.

Others were disappointed that the White House had effectively prohibited the creation of new stem cell lines using federal funding.

Stem cell lines resulting from a pathbreaking collaboration beginning in 2014 between The NYSCF Research Institute and the Charcot - Marie - Tooth Association (CMTA) are now available for use by other researchers in the largest and first ever initiative of its kind.

Researchers from other countries have anecdotally reported the establishment of stem cell lines, but this is the first scientific publication describing the isolation of stem cells under government guidelines specific to stem cell research.

More important, the deposit to the Stem Cell Bank is the bellwether of many more stem cell lines to come, both from the UK licenses and, presumably, from researchers in other countries operating under their respective regulatiStem Cell Bank is the bellwether of many more stem cell lines to come, both from the UK licenses and, presumably, from researchers in other countries operating under their respective regulatiCell Bank is the bellwether of many more stem cell lines to come, both from the UK licenses and, presumably, from researchers in other countries operating under their respective regulatistem cell lines to come, both from the UK licenses and, presumably, from researchers in other countries operating under their respective regulaticell lines to come, both from the UK licenses and, presumably, from researchers in other countries operating under their respective regulations.

In the future, scientists may be able to modify human stem cell lines in the laboratory by using gene therapy or other techniques to overcome this immune rejection.

In addition, three California - based ALS research labs have joined forces to form the Neuro Collaborative, which will create induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell lines from ALS patients that can be used to screen for new drugs and will be shared with the other groups.