Sentences with phrase «stem cell lines created»

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.

The bill was put forth to loosen the restrictions Bush placed on human embryonic stem cell research on August 9, 2001, when he banned federal funding for work with any stem cell line created after that date.

Not exact matches

Although he never banned this research outright, President Bush limited federal funding for research to the embryonic stem cell lines that existed before August 2001, thus drawing a line at destroying human embryos created after that date.

That includes not only procedures in which embryonic - stem - cell lines are created, but also those that use previously derived cell lines.

To solve this, West proposed «therapeutic cloning» — taking the nucleus out of a patient's cell, transferring it into an egg cell to create a cloned embryo, then using that embryo to derive patient - matched stem - cell lines.

In September Harvard University scientists reported using existing stem cell lines — not eggs — to create more stem cells.

Hamilton announced the newest organ - on - chip innovation, which recreates an intestinal lining using patient - derived stem cells, created through a partnership between Emulate and Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute.

Ongoing attempts to create human stem cell lines using SCNT have yet to achieve success.

Since 2004, several groups have reported creating stem cell lines through parthenogenesis.

McCain would ban scientists from using donor eggs to create disease - specific stem cell lines or chimeric animals to see how human stem cells behave during development.

While he has been working with federally - approved human ES lines, he notes that those lines could be considered illegal until they get vetted by the stem cell working group NIH plans to create.

Still it is a significant improvement over former President George W. Bush's rules that allowed federal support for work with only 21 stem cell lines already created from surplus embryos at fertility clinics.

And so, you know, again theoretically, you could take one stem cell line and create tens of thousands of tons of food.

«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.»

If the president's philosophy — to restrict federal funding to research on cell lines created prior to August 9, 2001 — lacks a principled moral basis that amplifies the view that the governmental obstacles imposed on stem cell research, and the delays they have caused, themselves represent an ethical problem.

Last January, the House of Representatives voted, 253 to 174, to pass a bill, H.R. 3, that would allow researchers to use leftover embryos from in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics to create new lines of embryonic stem cells, and in April, the Senate passed its version of the bill.

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

Mindful of public sensitivities, Daley opted to pursue experiments using what he considers the least controversial human materials to create new nonpresidential stem cell lines — poor quality embryos and oocytes that, in his words, «otherwise would have been disposed of as medical waste.»

In May 2006, Eggan's lab received approval from Harvard to seek healthy human eggs from female donors, a first step toward using research cloning to create new stem cell lines.

These human cells were ineligible for federal research funds because they had been created after President Bush's August 9, 2001, announcement freezing the number of government - approved stem cell lines.

By May 2005 they had used cloning techniques to create 11 stem cell lines, each one the perfect genetic match of a different patient, another first.

For now, the new stem cell lines UC Berkeley researchers have created will help scientists understand the first molecular decisions made in the early embryo.

According to a new analysis, the cell line they created represented the first example of parthenogenetic human embryonic stem (ES) cells.

Though Hwang Woo - suk, a South Korean scientist claimed to have created the first human embryonic clone and derived a stem - cell line from it in 2004 his work was later shown to be fraudulent.

During the next five years, KOMP2 will transform the knockout mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells into adult mice for 2,500 lines of well - characterized knockout mice strains, and IMPC will create about 2,500 additional knockout mouse strains.

June 21, 2007: Bush vetoes another DeGette - sponsored bill that would allow research on all stem - cell lines using cells created for in - vitro fertilization and scheduled to be discarded.

KOMP2 and IMPC researchers will begin by creating lines of knockout mice from embryonic stem cells produced by KOMP.

What Collins does not say, however, is that the new NIH guidelines also allow for federal funds to be used in studying new human embryonic stem cell lines that are created (by private entities, of course) beyond the 700 currently in existence.

The new NIH guidelines do not permit the use of federal funds for creating new human embryonic stem cell lines.

In partnership with several international programs, the initial five - year phase of KOMP will reach its goal of creating knockout mouse embryonic stem cell lines for each of the approximately 21,000 protein - coding genes in the mouse genome this year.

Reprogramming adult cells to function like embryonic stem cells is one way researchers hope to create patient - specific cell lines to regenerate tissue or to study specific diseases in the laboratory.

The team that generated the insulin - producing embryonic stem cell line, e.g., had a success rate of under six percent, using 71 eggs to produce four stem cell lines from the embryos they created and destroyed.

One of those teams created a cloned embryo from the somatic cells of a diabetic patient; this embryo was then destroyed in order to generate an insulin - producing embryonic stem cell line.

The use of higher resolution techniques, such as array CGH and, soon, whole genome sequencing, will enhance the ability of researchers to examine stem cell lines to determine which are best — least likely to result in diseases and other problems — to use in creating therapies for use in humans.

He claimed that the rules violated the Dickey - Wicker amendment because embryos must be destroyed in the process of creating embryonic stem cell lines.

On March 9, 2009, President Obama lifted the ban that had previously restricted the use of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research on cell lines that had been created after August 9, 2001.

Stice's neural cell kits created from human embryonic stem cell lines last up to six months.

He could have left the funding of research involving cell lines created by the destruction of human embryos in place, and led the charge to promote ethically unproblematic non-embryo-destructive forms of stem cell science.

The legislation would lift Bush's restriction that limits federal research on embryonic stem - cell lines to those created before August 2001.

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.

Here we used genome - saturated mutagenesis to create a biobank of over 100,000 individual haploid mouse embryonic stem (mES) cell lines targeting 16,970 genes with genetically barcoded, conditional and reversible mutations.

Cells from these embryos can be used to create pluripotent stem cell «lines» — cell cultures that can be grown indefinitely in the laboratory.

In addition, three California - based ALS research labs have joined forces to form the Neuro Collaborative, which will create induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell lines from ALS patients that can be used to screen for new drugs and will be shared with the other groups.