Sentences with phrase «over embryonic stem»

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In the heated ethical debates over embryonic stem cells, Parkinson's disease often figures large.

They also touched off the most serious moral and ethical debate so far over both embryonic stem cell research and human cloning.

In his January 2008 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush claimed that research by James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin and Shinya Yamanaka of the University of Kyoto in Japan would finally end the morally and politically nettlesome debate over embryonic stem cell research.

Take the debate over embryonic stem cell research.

In its white paper on stem cell research published last Thursday, the DFG's senate confirmed its position that the use of adult stem cells has to have priority over embryonic stem cells.

He gives the example of the debates over embryonic stem cell research.

In the time of all this fighting we've had [over embryonic stem - cell research]-- which did slow down this [adult stem - cell] research — in the last year we've advanced ten years.»

Not exact matches

Second problem: One group that does not know the debate is over is the group of pro «embryonic stem - cell research advocates, whose name is Legion.

Yet just such an unlikely resolution may be in hand for one of the most acrimonious conflicts of recent times: the debate over human embryonic stem cells....

This question has been the topic of considerable legal and social debate over the years since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision» debate that has only been intensified by the recent controversies over human embryonic stem cells and human....

In people with severe eye disease, transplants made from embryonic stem cells (in region of black dotted circle) appear safe, and became larger and more pigmented over time (right).

«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.

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.

Now research describing a simple way of producing embryonic - like stem cells is being investigated over «inconsistencies».

«It's an exciting development, and we await the outcome over the next year to see how well these cells integrate, and if there are any potential adverse reactions,» says Mike Cheetham of the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London, one site where research is under way into a human embryonic stem - cell treatment for AMD.

In late 2004, California voters approved Proposition 71, allocating $ 3 billion over 10 years, making California the largest single funder of embryonic and pluripotent stem cell research in the world and consequently one of the strongest job markets for regenerative research.

Embryonic stem cells Both McCain and Obama support harvesting stem cells from embryos left over from in vitro fertilization.

The end of the politically explosive, decadelong ethical battle over human embryonic stem cells may finally be in sight.

«People want to rush and say, «we don't need embryonic stem cells anymore,» and over time that might be true, but right now that's premature.»

I believe the culture of embryonic stem cells represents the single most important contribution to biology over the last 25 years.

Australian researchers have so far generated over 50 embryonic stem cell lines from surplus embryos, and three research groups have been licensed to attempt somatic cell nuclear transfer.

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.

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 embryos, on average, had just 0.2 % of carried - over mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and the resulting embryonic stem cells at first harboured similarly minuscule levels.

The two researchers analyzed nationally representative surveys collected between 2002 and 2010 with the goal of better understanding how the U.S. public came to form opinions in the debate over human embryonic stem cell research.

A noted U.S. fertility researcher is relocating to England in a move that some researchers say underscores the uncertainty created by the current debate over government funding of research involving embryonic stem cells (Science, 13 July, p. 186).

Attempting to find middle ground in the contentious debate over human embryonic stem cells, President George W. Bush announced 9 August that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be allowed to fund work with embryonic stem (ES) cell lines — but only those lines that have already been derived.

February 2010 - Italian stem cell scientists challenge goverment EuroSyStem scientist Elena Cattaneo challenges Italian government - the story continues In the summer of 2009, three Italian stem celli scientists unsuccessfully challenged their government in the courts over its decision to exclude human embryonic stem cell research from a ministerial funding call for projects on stem cell biology.

That study found that since MSCRF first began awarding grants in 2007, its pattern of giving shifted over the years from strongly favoring projects focusing on ethically contentious human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) to projects focusing on ethically non-contentious adult stem cells and other non-embryonic stem cell research.

But for well over a decade now, ethically contentious human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) has notably failed to live up to all its hype, with promises of miracle cures within «five to 10 years» remaining unfulfilled.

Collins warned of a «cloud hanging over this field,» of top US scientists potentially being driven into other disciplines or other countries, and of «severe collateral damage» to the burgeoning field of induced pluripotent stem cell research, which, he argued, relies on human embryonic stem cells as a «gold standard» comparator.

The mouse lines, which will be stored in the form of frozen embryos, frozen sperm and frozen embryonic stem (ES) cells, will be delivered to NIH - funded mouse repositories that supply mice to universities, medical schools and research labs all over the world.

Over the years researchers have been making aggregates of embryonic stem cells to obtain certain cell types, for example red blood cells.

The unfolding legal dispute over human embryonic stem cells shifted to the political arena today as senators sounded off and prominent scientists pleaded their case before a Senate subcommittee hearing.

The team spent over a year optimising their techniques using mouse embryos and human embryonic stem cells before starting work on human embryos.

Proponents of destructive human embryonic stem cell research have all too often been quick to dismiss ethical concerns over the commodification and destruction of human life, concerns, they say, that represent an obstacle to the pursuit of science.

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.

This question might sound familiar, because it was central to the 2001 debate over human embryonic stem cells — a debate that was, back in the months before the 9/11 attacks, considered a significant controversy for George W. Bush's new administration.

The Institute's website notes the need for its work, pointing out that there are over 300 nonprofit research foundations and academic centers expressly devoted to research using embryonic stem cells.

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.

The discovery, by scientists at Kyoto University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison, seemed to promise a way out of the bitter debates over embryonic - stem - cell research: rather than using human embryos as a source of stem cells, produce them from adult cells.

Josephine Quintaville of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, a pro-life public interest group, said there was no scientific or ethical justification for using embryonic stem cells over adult stem cells.

Here we used genome - saturated mutagenesis to create a biobank of over 100,000 individual haploid mouse embryonic stem (mES) cell lines targeting 16,970 genes with genetically barcoded, conditional and reversible mutations.

Without these two technologies that you'll hear about in a moment, there would be no such thing as human embryonic stem cell research, and President Bush could have enjoyed his summer vacation in Crawford without having to agonize over the baptism of the infamous 64 stem cell lines.

And theres even better news: By using the patients own stem cells, the surgical team avoids the ethical debate over using embryonic tissue for research purposes.