Sentences with phrase «study human embryonic stem cells»

UC announced yesterday that it is the first research institution to seek to «intervene,» or become a party in the case, in which the government is appealing a lower court's ruling that National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to study human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) violates federal law.

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The study results were found using mouse embryonic stem cells, which are good cell models for the study of processes seen in human stem cells.

«I think this is the best option we have ever had,» says Renee Reijo Pera, director of Stanford University's Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education in California, who wasn't involved in the study.

Some of the researchers at the centre will study the differentiation of stem cells into other cell types, one group by using human embryonic stem cell biology and another by studying early embryo development.

For example, animal studies have shown that neurons derived in the lab from human embryonic stem cells improve Parkinson's symptoms; however, any residual stem cells associated with those neurons could form masses of unwanted cells.

To see whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.

Partially paralyzed rodents walk almost normally after human embryonic or fetal brain stem cells repaired their spinal cord injuries in recent studies.

Mouse embryonic stem cells, reported in 1981 by Martin Evans, Matthew Kaufman, and Gail Martin, have allowed scientists to generate genetically customized strains of mice that have revolutionized studies of organismic development and immunity and have provided countless models of human disease.

Because fertilized human embryos are far more accessible than unfertilized eggs, which can not be frozen and stored, extending the result to humans could lower the practical barriers against creating human embryonic stem cells to study and potentially treat disease.

Continued support for biomedical research, and opposition to human embryonic stem cell studies.

John Gearhart, a stem cell researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says the study «appears to be the best so far» at offering a potential alternative to human embryonic stem cells.

In a series of studies published since 2009, researchers in Wells» laboratory used human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) to grow embryonic - stage small intestines with a functioning nervous system, and the antrum and fundus regions of the human stomach.

Expanding from their previous studies with mice, the researchers first established that under specific conditions, culturing human embryonic stem cells with fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) leads to neural differentiation particular to the midbrain / hindbrain region — the location of the cerebellum — within three weeks, and the expression of markers for the cerebellar plate neuroepithelium — the part of the developing nervous system specific for the cerebellum — within five.

Other potential uses of embryonic stem cells include investigation of early human development, study of genetic disease and as in vitro systems for toxicology testing.

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.

Researchers at UCLA treat the first patients in the second FDA - approved study evaluating a therapy made from human embryonic stem cells.

That study found that since MSCRF first began awarding grants in 2007, its pattern of giving shifted over the years from strongly favoring projects focusing on ethically contentious human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) to projects focusing on ethically non-contentious adult stem cells and other non-embryonic stem cell research.

Enriched population of PNS neurons derived from human embryonic stem cells as a platform for studying peripheral neuropathies.

«Discovery of a gene that could convert human embryonic stem cells into myocardial cells would be golden,» said Didier Stainier, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics, the senior author of the UCSF study and a pioneer in the study of heart development in the transparent zebrafish embryo.

At present, there are no embryonic stem - cell treatments approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, and most human studies of such therapies have shown unremarkable results.

Recently, his lab used induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — adult cells made to act like embryonic stem cells — made from skin cells of patients carrying apoE4, or other mutations related to Alzheimer's, to study their effects on the development, survival, and degeneration of human neurons.

Dr Ludovic Vallier, co-author on the study from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, said: «This study represents an important step in understanding human embryonic development.

Dr. Tajonar obtained her PhD in the laboratory of Prof. Douglas Melton at Harvard University in 2012 where she studied mechanisms of self - renewal and survival in human embryonic stem cells.

Dr. Pfaff has developed a novel embryonic - stem cell - based model of SMA that phenocopies the pathology of human SMA, and can be used to study the basis of the disease and screen for compounds that might increase survival of motor neurons.

A new study confirms a seemingly obvious assumption about human embryonic stem cell research: Countries with fewer restrictions on research outperform countries with more restrictions.

The bill, Senate File 162, carves out an exception to Iowa's 2002 ban on human cloning allowing researchers to use cloning techniques to produce embryonic stem cells for medical study.

«Basically, this study shows that the genetic makeup of individual human embryonic stem cell lines is unique in the numbers of copies of certain genes that may control traits and things like disease susceptibility,» said Teitell, who also is an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Government regulators have given the go - ahead to a second study that will for the first time carefully test a treatment created using human embryonic stem cells in people, according to the company sponsoring the experiment.

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Microscopic view of a colony of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells being studied in developmental biologist James Thomson's research lab at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

In the new study, 12 patients will be treated with healthy scavenger cells, created in a laboratory from human embryonic stem cells.

This week, a group of London - based scientists requested official permission from the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to begin a three - year study involving embryonic stem cells.

UC Irvine researchers have discovered a dramatically improved method for genetically manipulating human embryonic stem cells, making it easier for scientists to study and potentially treat thousands of disorders ranging from Huntington's disease to muscular dystrophy and diabetes.

Prior to QB3, she studied mechanisms of self - renewal and survival in human embryonic stem cells in the laboratory of Professor Douglas Melton, completing her PhD at Harvard University in 2012.

To overcome these hurdles, Bhatia and her team reprogrammed human skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-- embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease.

Recent studies have demonstrated that some cells from human adults have the ability to be reprogrammed to become similar to embryonic stem cells.