Sentences with phrase «over human embryonic stem cell»

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.

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.

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....

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

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.

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.

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.

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«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.

«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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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