Not exact matches
ESCR scientists are mounting a furious political assault against the lawsuit, currently back in Royce Lamberth's court urging that human
embryonic stem cell research continue to be funded by the Feds, hoping to pressure the judge to
see it their way.
«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.
A large body of
research has reported that Nanog is allelically regulated — that is, only one copy of the gene is expressed at any given time — and fluctuations in its expression are responsible for the differences
seen in individual
embryonic stem (ES)
cells» predilection to differentiate into more specialized
cells.
But last April he also voted for the HOPEAct, a Bush - supported «compromise» bill that would open up federal funding for
research that does not involve the creation, destruction, or injury of embryos;
seeing as there are not yet any
embryonic stem cells lines that meet this condition (ACT hasn't yet proven that their technique poses no «risk of injury»), the HOPE funding would only be available for non-
embryonic stemcells.
«We
saw better germ -
cell differentiation in this transplantation model than we've ever seen,» said Renee Reijo Pera, PhD, former director of Stanford's Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Educat
cell differentiation in this transplantation model than we've ever
seen,» said Renee Reijo Pera, PhD, former director of Stanford's Center for Human
Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Educat
Cell Research and Education.
The final group of stories is related to pluripotent
stem cells: the discovery of
embryonic stem cells (ESCs) in mice in 1981 by Martin Evans (it was a treat to
see Evans, who won the Nobel Prize in 2007 for the
research he discusses in the film!)
It remains to be
seen how much the issue of
embryonic stem cell research will play in one of the nation's most closely watched and hard - fought Senate elections.