Sentences with phrase «stem cell research means»

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Case in point, the religious tries to halt stem cell research, which could mean that a cure for a disease that one of my kids develops might not be found.

Stem cell research using human embryos might mean new mornings for people like these — people you and I know by name.

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.

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.

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?

(CNN)- The White House meant no disrespect toward Nancy Reagan when it failed to invite the former first lady and vigorous supporter of embryonic stem cell research to a bill signing ceremony on the subject, press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.

They then argue that «By creating a financial incentive for embryonic stem cell research — an incentive that by NIH's own admission involves investments of «hundreds of millions of dollars» — and by specifying the precise means by which embryos must be destroyed in order to qualify for federal funding, the NIH necessarily and knowingly subjects embryos to a substantial risk of injury or death.»

«This is a neat study, both for what it tells us about melanocytes and more broadly for what it could mean to stem cell research,» says David Fisher, an oncologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Researchers have long used a different monkey species to research stem cell transplants, but that species» biological characteristics means it can't be reliably used to find good donor matches to mimic human stem transplants.

Bush defended his 2001 partial ban on stem cell research, maintaining the science is immoral because it means killing embryos that have a potential for life.

The authors emphasise that the possible therapeutic applications of their work are still distant, but they admit that, without doubt, it might mean a change of direction for stem cell research, for regenerative medicine or for tissue engineering.

Scientists are champing at the bit to find out what President George W. Bush's newly revealed policy will really mean for research using human embryonic stem cells.

Hence, for many labs, the time and money needed to make high quality pluripotent stem cells available to the broad research community is beyond their means.

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.

In 2004, this editorial page backed Proposition 71, a $ 3 billion ballot measure meant to bypass then - President George W. Bush's ban on human embryonic stem cell research and to put California in the forefront of this hugely promising field.

Medical research has shown adult stem cells to be angiogenic, meaning they stimulate the growth of new blood vessels.

«Depending on who you are and perhaps where you live, stem cell research can be seen as a means for preserving life or taking it,» they say.

It now goes to Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who has supported and set aside funds for stem cell research in previous years through executive orders and other means.

I know where you are coming from, but labels such as «Democrats» and «Republicans» are USA - centric, and there may be associations (by no means always universally applicable even within the USA, however), with them to such things as abortion, ID, stem cell research, AGW, and so on.

It shows that the Planned Parenthood staffer was talking in the context of stem cell research, and was talking about standard reimbursement rates for costs associated with tissue donation — all of which was edited to change the meaning.