Sentences with phrase «potential of embryonic stem cells»

In a bid to harness the potential of embryonic stem cells, surgeons in California have implanted lab - grown retinal cells into the eyes of two patients going blind from macular degeneration.

All the potential of embryonic stem cells might be harnessed with the new techniques — without the political and moral controversy associated with destroying a fertilized egg.

«That started a lot of excitement that there might be these adult stem cells that had the potential of embryonic stem cells,» says stem cell researcher Amy Wagers of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.

«Then there were fat stem cells,» Daley continued, reciting a litany of alternative ways to tap into the therapeutic potential of embryonic stem cells.

Scientists recently announced that they have found a way to turn human skin into cells that have all the therapeutic potential of embryonic stem cells.

Starting in 2007, in the same French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) lab where he did his Ph.D., Catelain worked to harness the potential of embryonic stem cells for treating cardiac diseases.

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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.

Proponents of the anything - goes position assert that the potential scientific and medical benefits of embryonic stem - cell research override all other considerations» and....

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to save millions of lives, but this is being prevented by religious radicals and therefore religion is detrimental to the preservation of life.

«We've shown that SIF - seq can be used to identify enhancers active in cardiomyocytes, neural progenitor cells, and embryonic stem cells, and we think that it has the potential to be expanded for use in a much wider variety of cell types,» Dickel says.

«Perhaps there are some mammary gland stem cells that can be coaxed to have a slightly broader potential than normal, but I very much doubt that embryonic - like cells normally exist in the breast,» says Robin Lovell - Badge of the National Institute for Medical Research in London.

Research involving the derivation and use of embryonic stem (ES) cells is permissible only where there is strong scientific merit in, and potential medical benefit from, such research.

«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.

Since embryonic stem cells can differentiate into any type of tissue, they have the potential to treat an almost unending array of medical conditions — replacing damaged or lost body parts or tissues, slowing degenerative diseases, even growing new organs.

The results help fill in the scientific puzzle kicked off by Dolly's cloning, which proved that mammalian egg cells were capable of dissolving the genetic roadblocks that limit the potential of most adult cells to give rise to only a single type of tissue — that of the organ from which they hail — whereas embryonic stem cells have the potential to become virtually any kind of body tissue.

Stem cell researchers maintain that whatever the potential of adult stem cells, embryonic research could help them achieveStem cell researchers maintain that whatever the potential of adult stem cells, embryonic research could help them achievestem cells, embryonic research could help them achieve it.

A fix for broken rat hearts Scientists this week successfully implanted human embryonic stem cells into rats that suffered heart attacks, coming a heartbeat closer to realizing the full potential of such therapy.

In their experiments, about 20 percent of embryonic stem cells lacking the microRNA exhibited expanded fate potential.

There is promising news today for those who hope to turn the potential of undifferentiated stem cells into medical miracles: Researchers are reporting a way to produce insulin - producing cells from mouse embryonic stem cells.

To tap embryonic stem cells» therapeutic potential, researchers must learn how to coax them to become a specific type of cell that can then be transplanted into the body.

Vowing to veto the legislation, Bush said before the vote that the «reports give us added hope that we may one day enjoy the potential benefits of embryonic stem cells without destroying human life.»

Other potential uses of embryonic stem cells include investigation of early human development, study of genetic disease and as in vitro systems for toxicology testing.

Research led by the Babraham Institute with collaborators in the UK, Canada and Japan has revealed a new understanding of how an open genome structure supports the long - term and unrestricted developmental potential in embryonic stem cells.

Adult and embryonic stem cells are complementary subjects of research and studying them side by side offers the greatest potential to rapidly generate new therapies.

The potential of iPS cells to help treat everything from damaged heart tissue to Parkinson's disease, has prompted intensive research that has looked into the use of skin fibroblast cells as an alternative to controversial embryonic stem cells.

After hearing a brief explanation that laid out the different sources of stem cells (but left undiscussed their current uses or future potential for therapy), the respondents offered a slightly more nuanced set of views, and only a slight majority (52 %) supported embryonic stem cell research.

While the potential of adult stem cells has been understood for some time, researchers have argued that the pluripotency of embryonic stem cells — their ability to be transformed into most if not all of the various cell types of the body — make them more valuable both for research and potentially someday for treatment.

The social, economic and personal costs of the diseases that embryonic stem cells have the potential to treat are greater than the costs associated with the destruction of embryos.

\ n3) There are «pluripotent» stem cells which are created from skin cells and offer the potential for becoming different cells similar to the hypothetical benefits of embryonic stem cells, but they do NOT involve any moral controversy.

Embryonic and fetal stem cells have the potential to morph into a greater variety of cells than adult stem cells do.

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.

Leading US research institutions may stop studying several federally - fundable linkurl: embryonic stem cell; https://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54749/ lines due to potential ethical problems surrounding the creation of the lines.

«Finally, to assess the potential fate of mtDNA under condition when the cells can replicate extensively (longer than allowed by UK law), they derived human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines from five ePNT blastocysts.

Critical issues include: (i) heterogeneity in stem cell populations (ii) regulation of cell fate choices; (iii) declining tissue performance with age and exposure to environmental injuries; (iv) the use of iPS and Embryonic Stem (ES) cells, and reprogramming methods for phenotyping disease states and potential use of these stem cells in the clistem cell populations (ii) regulation of cell fate choices; (iii) declining tissue performance with age and exposure to environmental injuries; (iv) the use of iPS and Embryonic Stem (ES) cells, and reprogramming methods for phenotyping disease states and potential use of these stem cells in the cliStem (ES) cells, and reprogramming methods for phenotyping disease states and potential use of these stem cells in the clistem cells in the clinic.

The guidelines were originally produced to offer a common set of ethical standards for the responsible conduct of research using human embryonic stem cells, which have the potential to produce all the body's cell types.

Unlike embryonic stem cells, which are developmental blank slates that can generate virtually all types of cells found in adult humans, adult stem cells are thought to possess limited potential to transform into cells found in their tissues of origin.

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.

Virtually identical to human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) except for their origin of isolation, the recently created induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)(Yu et al., 2007; Takahashi et al., 2007) hold much potential for use in regenerative therapies.

«This discovery will advance our understanding of stem cell epigenetics and chromatin structures, provide potential mechanisms on maintaining the hallmark properties of ES cells, and help researchers with the rich source of information to better understand some of the unique features — such as self - renewal and pluripotency — of human embryonic stem cells,» said Ng Huck Hui, Ph.D., senior group leader at GIS and a member of the Singapore team that conducted this research.

Despite the promise of iPS cells, scientists are still struggling to understand whether their developmental potential is equivalent to that of embryonic stem cells.

The challenge takes on even more urgency with recent developments, including a federal administration now more open to exploring the potential of stem cells, the recent FDA approval of a human trial involving embryonic stem cells, as well as the reported case of a young boy who developed a brain tumor four years after receiving a stem - cell treatment for a rare genetic disorder.

Alternatively, embryonic stem (ES) cells have emerged as a potential source of less immunogenic hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs).

Using cloning technology to derive embryonic stem cells genetically identical to a patient is potentially very important, not only to provide a source of cells that may be used to cure patients, but also to allow for genetic disease to be studied and potential drug treatments to be explored in the laboratory.

The authors highlight the successful application of both induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic stem cells for this first example of the in vitro formation of functional and mature skeletal muscle tissue, thereby also establishing the potential for patient - specificity in disease modeling, drug development, and possible muscle repair.

Here we report that cultures of expanded potential stem cells can be established from individual eight - cell blastomeres, and by direct conversion of mouse embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells.

His pioneering mouse embryonic stem (ES) cell work in the 1980s, demonstrating germ - line transmission and the great potential of ES cells to generate mice carrying mutations in endogenous genes, established milestones in a field that saw the award of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, and Oliver Smithies.

Embryonic stem (ES) cells have high self - renewal capacity and the potential to differentiate into a large variety of cell types.

«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.

However welcome the recent announcement that a team of scientists based at Newcastle University, has grown a section of human liver using stem cells from umbilical cords, rather than from the more controversial source of embryonic stem cells, and whatever the eventual promise or potential of harvesting organs for transplantation from genetically modified pigs, the benefits of either of these two pioneering techniques to currently dying / suffering patients, remain both elusive and distant.