Sentences with phrase «stem cell research also»

Opponents of embryonic stem cell research also are grabbing onto recent scientific advances that they say obviate the need for destroying embryos.

Not exact matches

If we are against the use of stem cell research on the basis of embryonic destruction, shouldn't we also be against in - vitro fertilization clinics because there are always excess embryos that get discarded?

Yet the latter form, which is present some eight weeks after fertilization, is not only ethically unacceptable for research but also far too old to yield embryonic stem cells.»

While much of Bush's original order was devoted to the exciting discoveries being made for «less morally problematic alternatives» to embryos as a source of stem cells, Obama fails to mention these, or that his new Executive Order also revokes Bush's encouragement for exploring them, choosing to support «promising research of all kinds», problematic and otherwise.

In 2010, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cells.

Many of these marketing tactics are used by Medela worldwide, and the information about the Family Larrson - Rosenquist Foundation's lack of arms length status is also important, since Medela has funded research to explore the use of stem cells in breastmilk as medicine.

Mr Blair also used his trip to California to woo researchers in stem cell science to come to the UK, after Mr Bush used his first presidential veto to block the further expansion of federal investment in this area of research.

Research shows its stem cells also impact the aging process.

The research team, led by bioengineering professor Adam Engler, also found that a protein binding the stem cell to the hydrogel is not a factor in the differentiation of the stem cell as previously suggested.

«Several major advances in recent years have been good news for multiple myeloma patients, but those new drugs only target terminally differentiated cancer cells and thus can only reduce the bulk of the tumor,» said Jamieson, who is also deputy director of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center, director of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego HeaStem Cell Clinical Center, director of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego HeaCell Clinical Center, director of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego HeaStem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego HeaCell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Heastem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Heacell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.

The centre will adopt a multidisciplinary approach toward stem cell research, and it will employ scientists «who will work on a diverse array of embryonic and adult stem cells,» adds Rudnicki, who is also the centre's director.

According to Izpisúa Belmonte, who is also a professor at the gene expression laboratories of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, CMRB aims to become «a research centre of excellence in south Europe in the line of world - recognized institutions such as the Salk or the Whitehead institutes, where both pre - and postdoctoral researchers receive multidisciplinary training of the highest quality» in stem cell biology and cell regeneration.

Serious questions were also raised about stem cell research by Harvard's Piero Anversa.

Today's findings augment recent research also published in Nature (Dec. 7, 2016) detailing the team's development of a «stemness biomarker» — a 17 - gene signature derived from leukemia stem cells that can predict at diagnosis which AML patients will respond to standard treatment.

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.

Also participating in this research were Prof. Jacob Hanna, who assisted with growing the embryonic stem cells, and research student Aditya Kshirsagar in Prof. Reiner's group.

The human version of the cells, called region - selective pluripotent stem cells, or rsPSCs, can also grow inside a mouse, something other human stem cells can't do, says Jun Wu, a research associate involved in the work, published in May in Nature.

In the following years, advocates were also actively engaged in Washington, D.C, encouraging policymakers to broaden embryonic stem cell research funding, which was ultimately passed after President Barack Obama came into office.

«We also aren't required to distinguish between federal and private funding for stem cell research, which makes conducting research logistically much easier,» he adds.

Canada also has a long tradition of involvement in stem cell research dating back to the early 1960s when J.E. Till and E.A. McCollough became the first researchers to demonstrate the existence of stem cells.

Massachusetts is also a major hub for stem cell research in the United States.

The UK also offers a favorable funding and regulatory climate, says Minger, whose lab works on the therapeutic and clinical applications of stem cell research.

Looking further into the intestinal crypts of both the transgenic and wild - type mice, the research team made what they consider a surprising finding: Not only was HMGA1 causing the stem cells themselves to self - renew or proliferate more rapidly in the transgenic animals, but it was also increasing the number of Paneth cells, a type of niche cell known to support intestinal stem cells.

«This shows not only that the use of stem cell research in the clinical treatment of childlessness is unrealistic but also that clinics should focus on using the eggs that women have had since birth in treating infertility,» says Professor Kui Liu.

(The research also shows other subsets of smooth muscle cells were transitioning to cells resembling stem cells and myofibroblasts.)

The A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute at the U-M Medical School also supported the work, which was reviewed and approved by the U-M Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research Oversight committee and Institutional Review Board.

But fetal tissue is scarce, and research in the past several years suggests that stem cells, which can be mass produced in a test tube, can also replace damaged brain tissue.

We should not only question the construct of the «ethics of curing,» as I will show, but we also need to look critically at reservations toward research on embryonic stem cells as they are expressed in our society.

Her research has recently shown that a signaling pathway dubbed «hedgehog» is important not only for normal development of stem cells but also for the growth of cancer cells in chronic myelogenous leukemia.

A couple of other research groups have also sorted stem cells based on gene expression, but they have not done so specifically with the goal of enriching cell populations for a specific tissue, the researchers said.

Previous research conducted by Dr. Badylak's team suggested that ECM also could be used to regenerate lost muscle by placing the material in the injury site where it signals the body to recruit stem and other progenitor cells to rebuild healthy tissue.

«For nearly 20 years, we've thought that the muscle weakness observed in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy is primarily due to problems in their muscle fibres, but our research shows that it is also due to intrinsic defects in the function of their muscle stem cells,» said Dr. Michael Rudnicki, senior author of the study.

«The DNA - bending module of the SRY protein is preserved among a large family of regulatory proteins that regulate key events in development, including how stem cells form the brain and other organs,» said Weiss, also a Distinguished Research Professor within the medical school.

«As researchers started using these cells more, it became clear that during the process of reprogramming to create stem cells the cell was also rejuvenated in other ways,» says Jerome Mertens, a postdoctoral research fellow and first author of the new paper.

Different model organisms like the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster are used for their research, aimed at decoding the principles of stem cell control with the aim to also apply them to higher forms of life and eventually humans.

Experimental approaches such as gene therapy are also being investigated, but Dr. Rudnicki's research suggests that these approaches will have to be modified so that they target muscle stem cells as well as muscle fibres.

«The results were remarkable, with significant shrinkage in patient - derived tumors,» said Memarzadeh, who also is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and the director of the G.O. Discovery Laboratory at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research and associate professor.

Scientists from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered that NANOG, an essential gene for embryonic stem cells, also regulates cell division in stratified epithelia — those that form part of the epidermis of the skin or cover the esophagus or the vagina — in adult organisms.

Memarzadeh, who also is a member of UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, agreed.

«We are in an era where the primary issues are not federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research,» wrote CAMR President Amy Comstock Rick, who is also CEO of the Parkinson's Action Network, in an e-mail to the more than 100 patient advocacy, scientific, and other groups that belong to CAMR.

The 50 - year - old Faustman says her work also undermines an important rationale for a favored subject of diabetes research, embryonic stem cells.

She has also championed the space program and stem cell research in the United States.

While megakaryocytes are best known for producing platelets that heal wounds, these «mega» cells found in bone marrow also play a critical role in regulating stem cells according to new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Rresearch from the Stowers Institute for Medical ResearchResearch.

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.

Jeanne Loring, a stem - cell biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who is also planning stem - cell trials for Parkinson's, is concerned that the Australian and Chinese trials use neural precursors and not ES - cell - derived cells that have fully committed to becoming dopamine - producing cells.

But the win was also a hopeful sign for scientists who have watched from the sidelines in disbelief as politicians cut science funding and distorted research on evolution, stem cells and global warming.

«Although we demonstrated that BCG educates stem cells to generate trained immunity, we had no idea about the molecular mechanisms that were involved in this protective pathway,» says Dr. Divangahi, who is also an Associate Director of the Translational Research in Respiratory Diseases Program at the RI - MUHC and an Associate Professor of Medicine at McGill University.

A group of scientists led by Sebastian Jessberger of the Brain Research Institute showed now that also the stem cells of the adult mouse brain asymmetrically segregate aging factors between the mother and the daughter cells.

The brief also rebuts the argument by two researchers who filed the suit that the guidelines make it harder for them to win grants for research on adult stem cells.

The 2012 platform also repeats previous calls for expanding federal funding «for the stem - cell research that now offers the greatest hope for many afflictions — with adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, and cells reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells — without the destruction of embryonic human life.»