Sentences with phrase «stem cell research do»

With which of the following opinions regarding embryonic stem cell research do you agree more?
Adult stem cell research does take place at Georgetown, in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, in addition to groundbreaking stem - like cell research in the Center for Cell Reprogramming.
University of Wisconsin scientist, James A. Thomson, who first derived ESCs from embryos, has said «if human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough.»
Wicker, no political naïf, brought out the big rhetorical ammo, reminding the senators that it was Jamie Thomson, the University of Wisconsin scientist who first reported isolating the cells in 1998, who said: «If human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough.»
Heaven forfend the U.S. be left behind in a post about religion and politics: Obama's move to lift the ban of federal funding of embryonic stem cell research didn't sit well with several U.S. states, which have now passed or are considering legislation to outlaw some forms of the work.

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What do you think of President Obama's decision to increase federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research?
According to Science Daily, Dr. Nagy, senior investigator at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, there is a «new method of generating stem cells that does not require embryos as starting points and could be used to generate cells from many adult tissues such as a patient's own skin cells
What do the Seer Stones of the Mormon faith say about stem cell research or a woman's access to birth control?
The fundamental impediment to our acceptance of embryonic stem cell research has to do with destruction of the human embryo.
In the time of all this fighting we've had [over embryonic stem - cell research]-- which did slow down this [adult stem - cell] research — in the last year we've advanced ten years.»
• President Obama did not go half far enough in lifting the ban against federal funding for embryonic stem - cell research.
Why did nt the faculty at Notre Dame object to Obama getting an HOnorary Doctorate when he openly support abortion and stem cell research from embryos?
By redefining the term they were attempting to backdoor their way into going after abortion rights, stem cell research, and anything having to do with little cells of «persons» living inside one big person.
But even as he does so, the underlying science may well move the politics of stem - cell research in the other direction.
Much more needs to be done to alert the public to the treatment successes obtained through the use of adult stem - cell research.
As for stem cell research, I don't think you understand the reach of these big drug companies.
Now, if we are not going to outlaw abortion, and the doctors / scientists want to take the aborted fetus and do stem cell research on it, well the damage is done and we might as well get all that we can out of it.
Just don't try telling me tomorrow you are for gay rights and embryonic stem cell research and we'll both be consistent
Those who believe these nonsensical ideas DO hold the rest back - be it in creationist ideas about biology, or stem cell research, or limiting over-population via contraception, you name it.
Is the right kind of Christian the one who wants to end stem cell research that has the potential to unlock cures for devastating diseases, like GW Bush did and Mitt Romney will surely do?
Skeptic Al, stem cell research is done very ethically and the name includes all types of stem cells, not just ones from umbilical cords.
The ANT - OAR proposal represent a scientifically and morally sound means of obtaining human pluripotent stem cells that does not compromise either the science or the deeply held moral convictions of those who oppose the destructive use of human embryos for research» which is a creative approach that can be embraced by both the anything - goes camp and the nothing - goes.
Second problem: One group that does not know the debate is over is the group of pro «embryonic stem - cell research advocates, whose name is Legion.
I do not find Russell E. Saltzman's essay «Two Boats, a Helicopter, and Stem Cells» (October 1999) entirely satisfying, although I have absolutely no quarrel with the argument developed for his own decision to oppose the use of aborted fetuses for stem cell reseaStem Cells» (October 1999) entirely satisfying, although I have absolutely no quarrel with the argument developed for his own decision to oppose the use of aborted fetuses for stem cell reseastem cell research.
As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.
Romney being Mormon had no effect on his being governor of Massachusetts, except when it came to stem cell research (he did not support it).
Example in point: Opposition to embryonic stem cell / human cloning research: It isn't anti science to oppose treating nascent human life like a corn crop or manufacturing embryos, anymore than it is anti science than the Animal Welfare Act the proscribes what can and can't be done in scientific research with some mammals.
Why do some conservative Christians say that the end justifies the means when it comes to torture, but not when it comes to stem cell research?
President Obama sidestepped that piece of legislation when he opened up more embryo - stem - cell research, but the legislation remains on the statute book, and as such the judge in August ruled as he did.
Why do you think politicians / religious leaders shy away from taking a stand against in - vitro and yet adamantly oppose stem cell research?
I understand why people are against stem cell research, but here's what I don't understand: Why don't more politicians / evangelicals speak out against in - vitro fertilization?
If religious right didn't intrude into government... meddle in science (hobbling stem cell research.
If couples do not elect to freeze the extra embryos for later use, they can donate their embryos for research, for stem cells research, to another couple, to an embryo adoption agency, or simply discard them.
Under a 2015 moratorium, the National Institutes of Health does not fund research that transplants human stem cells into early embryos of other animals.
The South Korean debacle [in which scientist Hwang Woo Suk was found to have been conducting fraudulent stem cell research] was revealing because one of the basic technologies that we thought they had developed they were in fact unable to do, and so far nobody in the United States or elsewhere has been able to do it either.
«I do not see any full development of major parts of the brain,» agrees Elena Cattaneo, who directs the Centre for Stem Cell Research at the University of Milan in Italy.
Starting in 2007, in the same French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) lab where he did his Ph.D., Catelain worked to harness the potential of embryonic stem cells for treating cardiac diseases.
After reading Morrison's work, Siddaraju Boregowda, a stem cell researcher at the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, was reminded of genetically altered mice that don't gain body fat or develop diabetes, even when fed high - fat diets.
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.»
However, as has been discovered by a team of Frankfurt - based researchers, these cells do have a weakness: In the current edition of the high impact journal «Cancer Research,» they report that the enzyme 5 - lipoxygenase (5 - LO) plays a significant role in the survival of leukaemic AML stem cells.
Does human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research violate the law?
Wagers was inspired to research bone marrow stem cells and did her postdoctoral work on adult stem cells.
Similar limbal stem cell transplant work has been done by physicians at the University of Melbourne's Center for Eye Research Australia and the Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Fitzroy, Australia.
«Especially for stem cell research,» she says, «the students think they can do more in China because of restrictions in the U.S. And people are coming back,» she adds.
«They look at us like we're the devil, which pisses me off because we're doing it the right way,» said David Bales, the chairman of Texans for Cures, a stem cell research advocacy group that opposes the three bills as written.
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.
«There is a real risk that as clinics proliferate, if we don't address it in a more proactive way, as we see negative outcomes for patients grow and people get mixed bags of information about stem cells, then this could really negatively impact the public perception of this research
What federal oversight should embryonic stem cell research have that other forms of biomedical research, including those involving human subjects, do not already have?
«Implantation to mother's uterus is arguably one of the hardest things we ever have to do in life,» said Ruohola - Baker, University of Washington professor of biochemistry and associate director of the UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, who led the research team.
«We essentially are discovering the vitality of what the stem cells actually do,» says Clevers, who is president of the International Society for Stem Cell Reseastem cells actually do,» says Clevers, who is president of the International Society for Stem Cell ReseaStem Cell Research.
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