Sentences with phrase «so embryonic stem»

Stem cells come in several varieties some with ethical considerations and Dr. Garner has «Respect all Life» as one of his guiding principles so embryonic stem cell therapy is not an option at Safari.

Extracted cells are not full embryos, so embryonic stem cell researchers have been able to spend federal dollars provided the cells were extracted using nonfederal money.

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While the entity generated by deleting or disabling early embryonic genes would produce only an unorganized collection of stem cells, it would do so after a period of what appears to be relatively normal development.

The year's most prominent science issue, federal support of embryonic stem cell research, is so controversial that the sons of Ronald Reagan gave dueling speeches at the opposing party conventions; Michael Reagan backs President George W. Bush's policies, including the ban on funding for research on new stem cell lines, while Ron supports Senator John Kerry's promise to lift restrictions.

Further ahead, he is looking to an emerging technology known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), in which adult cells are reprogrammed to be like embryonic stem cells so they can transform into any type of cell.

In 2006, Japanese scientists figured out how to reprogram specialized cells, such as those in skin, so that they act like embryonic stem cells.

Semenza says methylation leads to the destruction of NANOG's mRNA so that no protein is made, which in turn causes the embryonic stem cells to abandon their stem cell state and mature into different cell types.

So bear with me for a minute on a couple of very broad themes that I think human embryonic stem cells opened the door to.»

We take a human embryonic stem cell, and we inject it into a monkey blastocyst [the first 130 or so cells in a newly formed embryo].

«So this relates to embryonic stem cells and why the nation is so excited about where they come froSo this relates to embryonic stem cells and why the nation is so excited about where they come froso excited about where they come from.

Now you know that if you take a mouse embryonic stem cell that is, say, labeled so all of the developed cells will be blue, and you inject it into a mouse blastocyst, you'll get a chimera.

Of course, such embryonic stem cells are not available in adult patients, so being able to create them from regular cells is an important step.

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«The beautiful thing,» Lanza says, «is that if you have an embryonic stem cell line that is O negative, because it's immortal you could create an unlimited amount of universal blood that would match virtually everybody, so you wouldn't have to worry about matching blood types.»

So researchers began testing genes that were only active in embryonic stem cells to try to pin down those capable of triggering the change.

«So that's them,» he said, pointing out some of the nonpresidential embryonic stem cells that have been created and distributed among researchers since 2001.

Many scientists argue that so - called research cloning, in which cloned human embryos might be used to produce embryonic stem (ES) cells, could be a boon to medicine.

«It would be a big mistake,» Meissner notes, «to say, «now we can generate these [reprogrammed] cells, [so] we have to stop all human embryonic stem cell research.»»

Transplanted embryonic stem cells are ethically cleaner, but they have a genetic makeup different from the patient's own, so they could be violently rejected by the immune system.

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.

Previous work suggested they were as malleable as embryonic stem cells and so could be reprogrammed to make any kind of tissue.

And so they have long sought haploid embryonic stem cells, which can become any kind of tissue but contain just one set of genes, like a sperm or egg.

These induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have the ability to become almost any cell type and can divide indefinitely, so share many features with embryonic stem cells.

So I was asked to get all the Nobel laureates in the country to sign a letter to support embryonic stem cell research, addressed to Harold Varmus, the head of the NIH.

hESC researchers George Daley of Children's Hospital Boston and Sean Morrison of the University of Michigan told the panel why research on other types of stem cells, such as adult stem cells and so - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), can't substitute for work on embryonic cells.

As an alternative to harvesting them from embryos, scientists can also obtain pluripotent stem cells by treating mature somatic cells with a cocktail of transcription factors to regress them so that they are nearly as flexible as embryonic stem cells.

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

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to reprogram mouse embryonic stem cells so that they exhibit developmental characteristics resembling those of fertilized eggs, or zygotes.

The only stem cell research he would permit, Bush said, was research using existing embryonic lines as well as so - called adult stem cells, which occur in anyone of any age.

They don't require the use of embryos, so they avoid some of the ethical and legal issues that have complicated research with embryonic stem cells.

John Gearhart, a stem cell researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says the study «appears to be the best so far» at offering a potential alternative to human embryonic stem cells.

At present, this is only possible with mice, using so - called embryonic stem cells.

Furthermore, the process required scientists to engineer the stem cells so they would overexpress several genes, which was necessary to drive the embryonic stem cells to become germ cells.

It is not known how long it will take for embryonic stem cells to become a useful therapy or whether they will ever directly do so.

He's engaging in classic hype that the religious right uses whenever this issue comes up — claiming that we don't really need embryonic stem cells because adult stem cells are so wonderful that they can take care of everything.

\ n \ nWhile historically there had been a ban on taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research, there has never been a ban on private funding in this country and many European countries have allowed this type of research for years, but so far none of this research has yielded a single therapeutic use.

Keirstead's laboratory was the first in the world to develop a method to restrict human embryonic stem cells so they generate large amounts of only one cell type in high purity.

To do so, they started with a human embryonic stem cell line, which they chemically nudged to become cells that form what's known as the primitive streak on the hollow ball of cells of the early embryo.

I tried to say so myself at different times myself, even though I support embryonic stem - cell research.

Not so long ago, human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research and SCNT were being hailed as the future of regenerative medicine, capable of generating cures and therapies for any number of diseases and conditions.

Dr. Yamanaka's Nobel prize - winning discovery of a way to turn adult skin cells into so - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) that act like embryonic stem cells has radically advanced the fields of cell biology and stem - cell research.

It is ironic that in patients with very high underlying risks already, one outcome, which necessarily was not even related to the stem cell infusion, is attracting so much attention, WHILE ON THE OTHER HAND NO ONE DISCUSSES THE FACT THAT EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS CAUSE CANCERS CALLED TERATOMAstem cell infusion, is attracting so much attention, WHILE ON THE OTHER HAND NO ONE DISCUSSES THE FACT THAT EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS CAUSE CANCERS CALLED TERATOMASTEM CELLS CAUSE CANCERS CALLED TERATOMAS!!!

Embryonic stem cells — the subject of so much controversy (witness the new ruling blocking their use)-- were first cultured in the lab a little more than a decade ago; in 2006, there was another breakthrough when adult cells were coaxed into becoming induced pluripotent stem cells.

The molecules central to this balancing act, H3K4me3 and H3K27me3, are among the so - called epigenetic modifications that influence the activity patterns of genes in both human embryonic stem (ES) cells and mature human adult cells.

Even though different cell types were used as the initial starting materials, and they were made to produce different sets of proteins, both groups identified and isolated cells nearly identical to human embryonic stem cells, and did so in the same timeframe.

YDSTIE: So does this move us any closer to the day when embryonic stem cells can actually be used for therapy?

The first reports of the successful reprogramming of adult human cells back into so - called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which by all appearances looked and acted liked embryonic stem cells created a media stir.

The NIH is already funding the banking of one type of pluripotent stem cell, the so - called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell, and it makes economic and scientific sense for the NIH to also fund embryonic stem cell banking and distribution.

So far, however, embryonic stem - cell research has been a money loser.

So they felt, well, hmm, if we can boost them in skin stem cells, maybe they'll start behaving like embryonic stem cells.