Sentences with phrase «stem cell lines available»

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.

Under the Obama administration, the number of embryonic stem cell lines available for federally funded research had more than tripled, but no money was going toward the creation of any cell lines (a process that destroys the embryo).

He has also been an inveterate foe of abortion, a position that informed his repeated votes against expanding the number of human embryonic stem cell lines available to NIH - funded researchers during the George W. Bush administration.

Collins and others argue not just for a permanent removal of the injunction to resume research with confidence, but also for an extension of the number of embryonic stem cell lines available to federally funded researchers.

Congressional supporters of stem cell research have re-introduced legislation to codify President Barack Obama's 2009 executive order lifting restrictions on the number of human embryonic stem cell lines available to federally funded researchers.

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In 2001, after President Bush limited federally funded research to 69 existing embryonic stem cell lines, Melton launched a private fund - raising crusade and developed 17 new lines that are now available to any reputable stem cell researcher.

The report recommends setting up a publicly available global stem cell registry that would include a cell line's characteristics and derivation information.

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.

These lines are available for researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in San Francisco, says Jeremy Crook, a stem cell biologist at the University of Melbourne, Australia, who led the team that made the lines.

Bush claimed that 60 stem cell lines are available for research.

Each stem cell line they produce gets submitted to a national registry — a clearinghouse to let scientists know which lines are available for them to study using federal research grants.

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.

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...

• All available stem cell lines are contaminated with mouse feeder cells, making their therapeutic use for humans uncertain.