Sentences with phrase «stem cell lines»

129 mice are widely used in the production of targeted mutations due to the availability of multiple embryonic stem cell lines derived from them.

The researchers are already developing stem cell lines from other trial participants with bipolar disorder, though it takes months to derive each line and obtain mature neurons that can be studied.

In the future, scientists may be able to modify human stem cell lines in the laboratory by using gene therapy or other techniques to overcome this immune rejection.

More recently, 129 mice are widely used in the production of targeted mutations due to the availability of multiple embryonic stem cell lines derived from them.

German scientists say that they need access to newer stem cell lines to compete and collaborate internationally.

The group urged the creation of two central databases: One on stem cell lines in use worldwide and one on intellectual property rights so scientists can readily access information.

In particular, they open the possibility to study diseases for which there are no embryonic stem cell lines available.

In the face of these setbacks, many scientists have focused on new methods of creating stem cell lines without destroying embryos.

They were able to block proliferation of several cancer stem cell lines.

There are many hundreds, if not thousands, of different stem cell lines in use around the world.

The team used skin from people with bipolar disorder to derive the first - ever stem cell lines specific to the condition.

They insist resources would be better spent pursuing advances through adult stem cell lines instead of allowing what they called «clone and kill» research.

However, some consider human embryonic stem cell research controversial because, in some cases, the new stem cell lines are derived frozen human embryos that have been donated for research.

Labs that derive new human embryonic stem cell lines are few, partly because they can not get financial support from federal sources.

The team produced 11 stem cell lines from 11 men, women, and children with conditions such as diabetes, spinal cord injury, and inherited immune deficiency.

He ruled that work on existing embryonic stem cell lines derived outside federally funded labs did not violate a ban on the destruction of embryos.

Many researchers are already using stem cell lines in drug development, and to further understanding of often - complex diseases.

ACT scientists modified a diagnostic procedure used in fertility clinics to create the first embryonic stem cell lines without destroying the embryos in the process.

In this study, published in Stem Cell Reports, the researchers used both murine and human pluripotent stem cell lines with airway secretory lineage reporters, which enables their tracking, purification and profiling.

Here is a short excerpt of an aticle I just finished writing and that is relevant to Ralph's Manifesto 1.3.1: The differences between Bush's «Executive Order Expanding Approved Stem Cell Lines» (June 20, 2007) and Obama's Executive Order overturning it are striking....

A new stem cell line with the mutation for fragile X syndrome may help uncover the mechanism behind the debilitating disorder

Research eligible for federal dollars can be done only on embryonic stem cell lines created on or before Aug. 9, 2001.

In just over two years, the U-M team has contributed the most disease - specific stem cell lines of any institution, and 25 lines in all.

Keirstead will use a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) in which a patient's DNA is transplanted into a donated unfertilized egg cell in order to generate stem cell lines with the same genetic makeup of the patient.

Neural stem cell lines derived from human fetal brain tissue achieved the same feats, the researchers report in the October issue of Nature Neuroscience.

In yesterday's order, Lamberth wrote that they did not: «The prior [Bush Administration] guidelines, of course, allowed research only on existing stem cell lines, foreclosing additional destruction of embryos.»

The procedure is much more efficient at producing stem cell lines than is nuclear transfer, and parthenotes should be less controversial than other sources of stem cells (Science, 24 December 2004, p. 2174).

«Using a human embryonic stem cell assay, Dieter Egli's lab shows that the majority of human embryonic stem cell lines established following spindle transfer retain similar levels of mitochondrial carryover (heteroplasmy) to that detected in the preimplantation embryo.

British newspapers reported this weekend that Ian Wilmut, the University of Edinburgh biologist who led the team that in 1997 cloned Dolly the sheep, is getting out of the cloning business in light of the new findings, which seem to offer researchers a likely new source of stem cell lines for basic research that could one day lead to new treatments and perhaps cures for spinal injuries, diabetes and debilitating disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

His group began with 242 eggs, but after removing the eggs» nuclei and swapping in those of somatic cells, the investigators produced only 30 blastocysts (week - old embryos), from which they coaxed just one stem cell line into being.

These «atypical» bases are thought to be important in determining what types of differentiated cells can be derived from a given stem cell line,» says Professor Thomas Carell from the Department of Chemistry at LMU.

Researchers compared induced pluripotent stem cells lines reprogrammed from different adult cell types that have been previously differentiated from embryonic stem cells.

However, a research team from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), Harvard Medical School (HMS), and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has found that as stem cell lines grow in a lab dish, they often acquire mutations in the TP53 (p53) gene, an important tumor suppressor responsible for controlling cell growth and division.

Scientists from King's College London announced that they were depositing the first clinical grade stem cell lines developed for publicly - funded research in the UK Stem Cell Bank.

In essence, the signers were trying to get the President to change his mind about stem cell lines used for research so that Congress does not have to create a legislative solution.

Stem cell lines resulting from a pathbreaking collaboration beginning in 2014 between The NYSCF Research Institute and the Charcot - Marie - Tooth Association (CMTA) are now available for use by other researchers in the largest and first ever initiative of its kind.

His wife, Nancy, has called for the Administration to make more stem cell lines available for federally funded research on diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

NYSCF Research Institute scientists took these patient samples and turned them into induced pluripotent stem cell lines using its automated technology, the NYSCF Global Stem Cell Array.

Guidelines from the National Institutes of Health and federal laws define parthenotes as embryos, which means that deriving new parthenogenetic stem cell lines is off - limits to all labs receiving federal funding — which is nearly all of them.

Another process, called parthenogenesis, could yield stem cell lines that are genetically matched to a patient — in this case, the egg donor.

UC Irvine neurobiologist Hans Keirstead and his research team today launched a project to develop stem cell lines that genetically match human patients.

As a result, many of the studies published up to now describe only two or three patient stem cell lines,» says David Panchision, who oversees the NIMH's National Cooperative Reprogrammed Cell Research Group (NCRCRG) program, which supported this work.

After Hwang's lab was found to have fabricated much of its data, Seoul National University performed a detailed genetic analysis of the original stem cell line, called NT - 1.

The present law does not allow scientists in Germany to grow stem cells from human embryos, and allows them only to import stem cell lines derived from embryos before 2002.

Finally, he opened the door to funding research involving stem cell lines created by producing human embryos by somatic cell nuclear transfer or other means specifically for research in which they are killed.

We are the home of the UK Stem Cell Bank which provides a world - leading resource of ethically - sourced, quality - controlled human embryonic and other stem cell lines for research applications.

Last year, Hwang burst onto the global scene with the first stem cell line created from a cloned human embryo.

► The RIKEN stem cell «fiasco» continued with a 26 December report concluding that three «supposed STAP [stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency] stem cell lines were actually likely to be... previously existing embryonic stem (ES) cell lines,» Dennis Normile wrote.